Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present emotional climate? We have been through Watergate, Elizabeth Ray and disillusionment with the old-time Washington crowd and, fairly or not, the Republican Party. Our hopes are with the American Dream, which Carter appears to personify. Although we may not know the man, we feel we know the symbol...
...least 90% of the 2.8 million Americans graduating from high school this year wore on cap and gown some Bicentennial symbol, ranging from RWB cap tassel to round-the-shoulder Liberty Bell medallion...
Minor Import. What triggered the rioting was an issue that clearly was of minor import to the government, yet had great symbolic importance in the ghetto. In 1974 the Pretoria Government Education Department ruled that students in Soweto's schools−about 250 of them serve at least 200,000 pupils in triple shifts−must take some subjects in Afrikaans, the Dutch-based language that, along with English, is one of the two official languages for white South Africa. What particularly angered the students was that blacks in tribal areas were allowed to opt for classes in either...
...year. Yet the committee's action adds fuel to what has become a bitterly fought ideological, economic and political issue that is certain to spill over into the presidential campaign. Says Senator Birch Bayh, Democrat of Indiana and the bill's chief sponsor: "If there is one symbol of the Establishment ripping off the people, it is the oil companies." The companies, which have suffered a series of blows in recent years, including nationalization of many of the foreign oilfields they developed, have pulled out all stops in a multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to defeat the bill...
...question deserves a sober−but not too sober−answer. For, thanks to Ehrlichman and The Company, Truman Capote and Answered Prayers, and Elizabeth Ray and The Washington Fringe Benefit, the roman à clef may become not only the form the bestselling novel takes in 1976 but the symbol of a rather shoddy year that could just possibly go down in history as the Age of Psst!−Have-You-Heard...