Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...branches might well be called the "unitarian" wing of the occult. The members invest themselves with some of the most flamboyant trappings of occultism, but magic for them is mostly psychodrama ?or plain old carnival hokum. They invoke Satan not as a supernatural being, but as a symbol of man's self-gratifying ego, which is what they really worship. They look down on those who actually believe in the supernatural, evil or otherwise...
...Ford, then Dean of the Faculty, issued a public statement defending the Science Center, entitled "A Program for Science in Harvard College: Why it Must Succeed." Ford said, "The Science Center stands in the very middle of our planning, both as a badly needed physical facility and as a symbol of the educational values we are seeking to advance...
...BIOLOGISTS are not the only people who are less than thrilled by the Science Center. Anyone who has suffered financially from cutbacks in the Faculty's budget is likely to look upon the Science Center as a symbol and source of economic woes. For although the entire cost of building the enormous structure came solely from capital amassed from contributions outside of the Faculty budget, the yearly upkeep of the building--expected to total about $1 million--will come exclusively from the Faculty budget...
...reflection of the age of mass travel; last year alone they served 72 million guests. The Holiday Inn sign, a 43-ft.-tall tower in screaming green, orange and yellow, is almost inescapable on American highways, and it is well on its way to becoming a Pop symbol of U.S. enterprise abroad...
...miles north of Saigon, the Communists kept up a steady but diminishing mortar and artillery attack on the town's 6,000 defenders, while a South Vietnamese relief force remained stalled under enemy fire on Highway 13. An Loc has little strategic value, but it has become a symbol of victory or defeat to both the North and South. "As it slowly disappears under the combined weight of allied bombing and Communist bombardment," reported TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch, who visited the area last week, "its symbolic importance grows ever greater. Like Dien Bien Phu, which also had no particular...