Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carnations. Lisbon reacted like a liberated city. People joked with the soldiers guarding the main streets and squares, and long stemmed red carnations, a symbol of support for the army, appeared everywhere. Cheers and hurrahs greeted every mention of Spínola's name. Appointed to the seven-man ruling junta group that he clearly dominated, Spínola went on television with his colleagues to promise free elections "as soon as possible," a phrase later defined as some time within the next year. They also pledged to abolish the hated secret police in Portugal itself and grant full...
TODAY IS MAY DAY, the international revolutionary holiday. It's a holiday whose origins are a bit obscure--it may have grown out of the battle of workers in Chicago for an eight-hour day--but which has become a symbol of hope for people throughout the world...
Even last week's military coup in Portugal--important though it was, for the prospect of earlier self-rule it raises for Portugal's rebelling African colonies and for the tremendous joy and revolutionary spirit it set off in Portugal itself--has ironies enough to make it a good symbol for the last year's limited advances. Antonio de Spinola, the country's new strong man, has no great democratic biography--his military service came as a Fascist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, as an observer with the German army in World War II, and as a commander with...
...composed far more than an old people's brief in fiction. A native Mississippian herself, Ellen Douglas has made her argument palpable in her milieu. The Southern-Gothic setting-decaying classical porticos plus mazes of wisteria and Confederate jasmine-closes around the reader and, like a perfect symbol, becomes the substance as well as the metaphor for the author's theme of human dissolution. The politics of old age turns into the poetry of mortality...
...Strike was built around a set of specific demands. Students wanted the Reserve Officers Training Corps off campus--they maintained that having ROTC at Harvard meant aiding an American Army engaged in unconscionable repression in Indochina. ROTC served as a symbol of University service to the American government--a far cry from the liberal ideal of free, politically neutral inquiry to which Harvard administrators gave lip-service. Students wanted a voice in running the University. They wanted to elect part of the Harvard Corporation, and help run the departments in which they studied, starting with Afro-American Studies, the newest...