Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DECISION last week by a group of freshmen to break the seven-year boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities was, at the very least, discouraging. Aside from the specific problems with its composition and procedures, the CRR stands as a symbol of the Faculty's paternalistic, perhaps even repressive attitude toward students. By bowing to the Faculty's desire that the CRR's kangaroo courts attain a veneer of legitimacy through token student participation, the freshmen who voted to end the boycott displayed a sadly misplaced confidence in the good will of the Faculty...
...primary concern of police quickly became the B'nai B'rith Building. The Hanafis had chosen this target as a symbol of their grudge against Jews. Throughout the siege Khaalis denounced the Jewish judge who had presided at the trial of his family's killers. "The Jews control the courts and the press," he repeatedly charged...
...unique set of interviews, Chiang Ch'ing summed up her stormy career as both sex symbol and potentate, movie actress and commissar. The slim, pretty actress from Shanghai who became the wife of Mao Tse-tung tried to turn her marriage to a modern-day emperor into supreme power of her own. She almost succeeded, and for a decade she was one of the world's most powerful women. As the virtual ruler over the culture of 850 million people, she determined what they could see on stage or screen...
...symbol par excellence of last fall's battle was Gene McCarthy, whose campaign began and ended as no more than a symbol. Perhaps Gene thought he could win. Perhaps he really thought, as his campaign manager once predicted, that he could win the big urban states and so take the electoral vote without the popular. Perhaps he really believed he could win states like Illionois without winning a single Congressional district--by running a very strong second to Daley-backed Carter in Chicago and then running an equally strong second to Ford in rural Illinois...
...Symbol or not, Clean Gene ran a real campaign last fall. He got on the ballot in most states and garnered more than a million dissatisfied voters to his cause. For Carter, who would have lost the election but for a 20,000 vote margin in Ohio and Hawaii, he was all too real...