Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black intellectuals are dismayed at the spate of Shaft-like characters about to emerge, feeling that they simply perpetuate for whites the myth of the black superstud. But Parks insists that Shaft-"a ballsy guy, to hell with everybody, he goes out and does his thing"-was an important symbol for the black community. Besides, black film makers are looking at the bright side. They are getting work, and films are getting made...
...dreamed of an international language, but attempts to promote one have always failed, probably because no country wants to abandon its traditional tongue. Now a new means of international expression is beginning to catch on, one that carries no threat to national pride: the silent, visible language of graphic symbols. To spread the word about these substitutes for words, Industrial Designer Henry Dreyfuss has just compiled a Symbol Sourcebook (McGraw-Hill, $28.50) of 8,000 universally comprehensible signs...
...that men are not stigmatized by having their marital status revealed by a form of address, the feminists have decided to be called Ms. (pronounced miz). In spite of all the jokes about Ms. standing for manuscript and mail steamer and master sergeant, it is fast becoming both a symbol and a fad. Ordinarily nonpolitical and conservative businesses, publications and organizations that correspond with women are having to make the big decision about whether to switch to Ms. Women's Wear Daily has, Vogue has not; the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has, the White House...
...real estate. Each sister makes a home for herself, sometimes shared with one or two other members, finds her own job and pays her own taxes. Each writes a private commitment to Christ instead of taking formal vows. None is required to wear a habit or any other religious symbol. Many, however, including Sister Kopp, wear crucifixes or other emblems of the profession...
...true Pop madness, the scene is almost too depressing to contemplate. The awful banalities of mind blowing. Tarot cards. Astrology. The literature of the occult. Drugs. The tragicomic Satan cults with their swastikas and animal sacrifices. Then there is that farthest-out symbol of the Madness Revolution: Charlie Manson, the master demon of unreason, praying to be "dead in the head...