Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Currently the center is using about 200 symbols arranged on wooden trays attached to wheelchairs. With demonstrations and explanations from their teachers, six brain-damaged youngsters are learning to use their fingers or a special clock hand fastened to the trays to point to the symbol that expresses what they want to say. Naturally there are symbols for such simple words as yes and no, hello and goodbye, man and woman. There is also a symbol for action that turns a noun into a verb. For example, a child who wants to say "Father sees mother" points first...
...Janie's aggressiveness and independence, two traits that have never endeared her to the L.P.G.A.'s largely conservative hierarchy. While the association has been working hard to impress tournament sponsors with a solid, businesslike image, free-spirited Miss Blalock has adorned her bank checks with the peace symbol and her golf bag with a sign that reads P.O.W.S NEVER HAVE A NICE DAY. In short, some of her peers clearly dislike her, and are probably enjoying her discomfort...
Mountain climbing is a symbol of man's loftiest aspirations: a test of mettle, a purification of the soul, a reach for the heavens. George Leigh Mallory, asked why he wished to climb Mount Everest, solemnly replied, "Because it is there." If asked the same question, the most recent adventurers to tackle the peak would probably respond differently: "Because we want to beat the guy from the other country...
...double-spiral dance, claims Kelly, is a 6,000-year-old symbol of reincarnation, which the witches ardently believe in. Costume, obviously, is minimal: a white waist cord for first-degree witches, a red cord for second degree, and a magic knife called an othame. So far, not even Kelly has felt prepared to go for the highest degree, the green garter. Among other things, it involves a milder version of what Gardner called the "Great Rite," an act of ritual sexual intercourse. "Nobody in our coven," says Kelly, "has felt ready to take...
...conviction that technology has failed to make the world better, as Americans long believed it would. Dean J. Stillson Judah of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley suggests that today's young people "cannot live as so many of us do, without the depth of myth and symbol and the richness of mysticism that existed before the rise of the empirical scientific attitude...