Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Payne offers this as the inspiration of the Nazi insignia. But the ancient symbol, common in Germanic countries, had been used by other right-wing groups well before Hitler...
...fashionable to talk about the need to cut back sharply or even ration the use of energy−but what would that really be like? As both an experiment and a symbol, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson encouraged the 7,500 citizens of Burlington to dim their lights, turn down their thermostats and curb their cars for two days last week. The aim: to make Burlington "Energy Conservation City, U.S.A...
...petition, drafted by poet-author Allen Ginsberg and Richard Alpert, former assistant professor of Psychology and Education, protests Leary's punishment "as a symbol of society's common anxiety concerning drug abuse...
Such exercises in symbolism proved immensely valuable in sustaining morale. Air Force Lieut. Colonel John Dramesi, who escaped with Atterberry in 1969 but was recaptured, began in the fall of 1971 to laboriously stitch together an American flag. He used the threads from a yellow blanket for the gold embroidery, pieces of red nylon underwear and red thread from a handkerchief, white threads from a towel and patches of blue from a North Vietnamese jacket. The flag often flew at night in the Hanoi Hilton cell block that he shared with 40 other men, and it was dutifully saluted...
Indeed, the need being so obvious and the city's tawdriness such a familiar symbol of the nation's urban mess, each Saran-wrapped view of it is likely to jar audiences with a shock of nonrecognition. Where has Greene hidden the psychologically bombed civilian population? Where have all the smog, graffiti and litter gone...