Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irrelevance at best and a needless extravagance at worst. A fairer view was that Britons-in a mood for a holiday from such irksome problems as inflation, unemployment, trade-union troubles and political woes-genuinely wanted to pay affectionate tribute to a gracious lady who has been a symbol of stability, humane decency and traditional values during one of her nation's most difficult quarter-centuries...
...chapter in the struggle over whether to retain Dade County's bitterly debated ordinance outlawing discrimination against homosexuals in housing, employment and public accommodations. This week the county will hold a referendum to decide whether or not to rescind the law. Already the issue has grown into a symbol of the countrywide battle for homosexual rights-pitting the zeal of Singer Anita Bryant, the pro-repeal crusader, against the anti-repeal efforts of newly energized gay activists...
...terror lurks just beneath the surface. At one point the wasp takes off his wig and stretches out one claw toward Alice "as if he wished to do the same for her." "The cutting off of hair," writes Gardner, "like decapitation and teeth extraction, is a familiar Freudian symbol of castration. Interesting interpretations of this will surely be forthcoming from psychoanalytically oriented critics...
...well-tanned and teary-eyed Gerald Ford, who received a standing ovation as President Kingman Brewster read his citation: "It took someone to get the house clean in time for the birthday party. Somehow, you managed to get us ready to celebrate. Like the tall ships, you were a symbol of stately and cheerful serenity." Brewster, who was leaving the university after 14 often stormy years as president, then got a surprise honorary degree himself ("You have been the disturber of placid assumptions and the preserver of the peace"). Amid the azaleas and tulips of his campus residence. Brewster...
...that is responsive to the needs of the great bulk of the community, and in this sense our struggle is linked to the larger social condition. Thus, it is of the utmost importance that we resist the appointment of Kissinger in the strongest possible way, for he is a symbol as well as a practitioner of what the university should stand against. Instead, Kissinger's personal contempt for academic freedom, as demonstrated by his actions, not his words, makes him unfit...