Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's in a flag? To George Balanchine, who is as symbol-minded as the next choreographer, a flag stands for the ritualistic, pride-bearing side of a nation. How and why the repetitious pace of ritual should be transformed into dance are questions that Balanchine alone seems able to answer. In Stars and Stripes (1958), he made a brilliant humoresque out of close-order and other U.S. military drills. In his latest creation, the hour-long Union Jack, he has come up with a visually stunning, three-part divertissement that masses the clans, changes the guard and salutes...
...Zaccagnini of this voter concern, and they appear to be making allowances for it even before the campaign formally opens. The posters for the Partite Comunista Italiano that appeared all over the country last week urged voters to choose the PCI and save Italy. The hammer and sickle symbol, however, was muted, as so far have been the campaign statements of party bosses. In a speech last week, Giorgio Napolitano, a top PCI leader, made a surprising and significant distinction between Communist goals this time round. "We say that Communist participation in national decisions is essential," Napolitano said. "A Communist...
...touches briefly on Pusey's role, which was one of the most controversial aspects of the Hartman case. The then-University president reportedly viewed Hartman as an "unfortunate example of faculty participation" in the student demonstrations of spring 1969, the review panel's report said, and Hartman became a "symbol of the faculty's distaste" for the protests...
...beginning of the story, "the execration index when it came to him (Leone) had risen to eighty-two per cent, as against thirteen per cent for those who hated him and five per cent for those who merely loathed him. . . The parties on the Left considered the Professor the symbol of the arrogance of power. His Christian Democrat friends by now found him an irritating and conceited old man. But the former did not judge it convenient to overthrow him, convinced as they were that without him it would be hard to find another single objective at which to direct...
...symbol been entirely shorn of substance. Any Prime Minister has to take seriously the monarch's right to advise and warn. Though Anthony Eden ignored Elizabeth's judgment that Britain should not make its disastrous 1956 Suez intervention, and was himself ruined by that adventure, the Queen strongly influenced Harold Wilson's decision to stop short of sending troops in countering Rhodesia's declaration of independence in 1965. Comparable governmental decisions have reflected the judgment of the Dutch and Belgian monarchs, and may possibly be seen in Spain in the future. In any event, both the ceremonial and less apparent...