Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his fireside chat last week, Carter introduced what may prove to be the most memorable symbol of an Administration that promises to make steady use of symbolism-the beige wool cardigan, a favorite of his. Carter wore the sweater at dinner with Rosalynn, Amy, Sons Chip and Jeff and their wives. In the library after his meal, Carter asked TV Adviser Barry Jagoda and Adman Jerry Rafshoon what they thought of the cardigan. They told him to check it himself on the TV monitor. All agreed it looked fine. Then Carter rehearsed his talk before the TelePrompTer (which...
...soon as they got the vote." Second--and perhaps more telling, although Baker fails to develop this idea fully--the women of the Seven Sisters failed to support the feminist movement because, in the words of Bryn Mawr's Carey Thomas, herself an ardent feminist, it is "the symbol of a stupendous social revolution and we are frightened before it." The women who attend the Seven Sisters, like the men who have traditionally attended the Ivy Leagues, come from predominantly upperclass, Eastern establishment backgrounds. Any threat to the status quo threatened their whole social standing...
...ancient Greece. But in the new version of the play, The Passion of Antigona Perez by Puerto Rican Luis Rafel Sanchez, which director Vincente Castro brings to the Loeb Mainstage March 3-6 and 9-12, the determined girl who wants to bury her dead brother becomes a symbol for all those who resist repressive regimes. Creon appears not just as a stubborn ruler but as the biggest, most demanding dictator of them all. Even the Greek chorus has a place in Sanchez' stark setting as the journalists and mob who report and intensify the action...
...Martial complains in one of his epigrams: "Yet, Linus, thou layest hold on all thou meetest; none can thy clutches miss; but with thy frozen mouth all Rome dost kiss." The early Christians obeyed St. Paul's injunction to "greet one another with a holy kiss" until the symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal. In the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves. The varieties of kisses are numerous: the kiss of treachery (Judas' example), the Mafia kiss of death, the kiss of reverence with which rabbis don their tallithim...
THERE ARE MANY sides to the story behind the construction of the Alaska pipeline. Big business touted the pipeline as a symbol of the way American know-how can tackle a tough environment and alleviate a crucial problem facing the country. To its boosters, the pipeline is a story of how a relatively undeveloped region can take advantage of its resources for the economic benefit of the people who live in it. And in fact even with Alaska's soaring inflation rate real income for most of the state's residents rose markedly with the advent of the pipeline...