Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cigarettes has less to do with taste or tar content than with the fact that Brown & Williamson International, which markets Kents abroad, has cornered 90% of the Rumanian cigarette import market. The dollar shop at Bucharest's Intercontinental Hotel is piled high with cartons of Kents, a tantalizing symbol of Western opulence. Among the principal purchasers are Third World students in Rumania, who supplement their meager stipends by buying Kents and trading them for cash. Such traffic, though illegal, is tolerated by the government. After all, bribery has been part of Rumanian life since the country was under...
...know who saw and heard the Ayatullah's "spokesman" address the cameras only to have everything he said repudiated by the old man the next day On the eve of Khomeini's return to Tehran, the New York Times admitted all in a frontpage headline: AYATULLAH, THE SYMBOL OF REVOLT, ELUDES DEFINITION...
Over the years, no one man has completely destroyed my love of the game of football more than Ohio State's Woody Hayes [Jan. 15]. If he is a symbol of anything, it is of the sad state of affairs that occurs when a healthy spirit of competition is replaced by an insatiable lust for victory at any cost...
Replacing the Shah's portrait were hundreds of thousands of pictures of the man whose single-minded determination had at last succeeded in bringing down the Shah. The exiled leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, had become both symbol and architect of the Iranian revolution, and presumably was weighing the appropriate moment to return to claim his due. Within hours, virtually every public square and boulevard once named for the Shah had been renamed for Khomeini...
...change of direction, and the one that triggered Meyendorffs dismay, was the ouster of Swiss Reformed Theologian Lukas Vischer as head of the council's Commission on Faith and Order, which seeks ecumenical unity through theological discussion. Although Vischer personally supported the antiracism grants, he was a symbol, to increasingly influential Third World activists within the W.C.C., of an old-fashioned theological approach to ecumenism. The commission, which is the only major W.C.C. agency with official Roman Catholic members, strongly urged that Vischer be reappointed to a job he has held since 1966. The Potter camp invoked a rule...