Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should not be condemned. I have no doubt that Memorial Church--which Rabbi Gold mistakenly perceives as standing "in the heart of this university"--is one such cultural lag. After all, no small part of the national support (financial and otherwise) which sustains Harvard University is connected to this symbol of Harvard's Christian origins. This can and should be tolerated without jeopardizing the longrun dynamic of the institutional democratization of Harvard. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
LICHTENSTEIN attacks the very distinction between illusion and reality, symbol and representation. Even though we know that the comic-book characters in his paintings are charicatures, the sentiments depicted by the disembodied panels are so overwhelming that we cannot help but participate in the drama. Even though we know that the painting of a sandwich and soda pop is schematic and does not even attempt traditional modelling and shading, our first reaction that it does represent the object is so powerful and so instantaneous that it almost actually becomes the subject...
...remember him fondly for any specific reason, but in almost uncanny fashion, several Poles, Czechs, and East Germans described in vivid detail their recollections of the day Kennedy was assasinated. And somehow, even for those who know of and oppose the policies he pursued, he stands as a positive symbol, a symbol of good. Perhaps the same Kennedy phenomenon exists elsewhere--and I've been told that it does--but nonetheless it seemed to me a comment on a peculiar East European anxiousness to believe in America...
PONTIAC, MICH. Racial confrontations, the bombing of buses and a school boycott made Pontiac a national symbol of white resistance to busing in 1971. Since then, tempers have cooled, and School Superintendent Dana Whitmer considers the busing program, which includes 15,500 of the city's 20,193 public school students, a qualified success. He concedes that overall test scores in reading and math have declined slightly because high-achieving white students from affluent families have left the district. But Whitmer maintains that individual achievement for both blacks and whites has remained the same and that "the outlook is good...
...move to D, where he is cut off from both telephones. Phonemanship is important too. An aggressive visitor should ask to make a phone call, settle in at the host's desk (violation of territory), and finger the phone confidently, as it is a strong phallic power symbol...