Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starve. Enough food to feed the nation is almost certainly being produced; two age old social constraints, however, prevent it from getting into hungry mouths. The first is the income distribution. Rich people always use more food than they have to, especially in places where fat is a status symbol. Every pound of meat an American peace corpsman or Bengali professor buys takes seven pounds of grain off the market. This, of course, pushes the poorest of the poor below subsistence, towards death. With an equal income distribution, Bangladesh's food needs could be thirty per cent less than they...
...what if the Joe Garagiola-Curt Gowdy sports network could pan its cameras so as to make his locks bounce as he slid into third. To me his shorn head will always be the symbol of baseball's bad side. Hell, I'm not asking for a Ted Simmons or even an Oscar "High Hat" Gamble -- but Pete, cut us some slack. Let it grow...
...wholly satisfactory. One reason surely is the nature of the U.S. presidency, which makes one man an irresistible target for many of society's misfits. The President is not only the Chief Executive, Commander in Chief of the armed forces and leader of his party. He is also the symbol of the nation, the living repository of its power and integrity. Few other democracies invest such temporal and quasispiritual authority in one life. Most split them between a President or monarch and his Prime Minister...
...even in his prewar era of official divinity, he was a monarch hemmed in by a constitution, not to mention the military leaders who came to power in Japan after 1931. Even so, writes Author Frank Gibney in The Fragile Super Power (TIME, April 21), "He served as a symbol of militarism for two generations. The imperial presence at all those military reviews reflected his close contacts with Japan's military leaders. He was something more than a passive bystander...
...American firebomb raid in 1945, was replaced by a new one in 1968 at the cost of $36 million. Maintenance of the imperial household these days costs the government $6.7 million a year-handsome remuneration for a man whose role is defined by the postwar constitution as a ceremonial "symbol of state...