Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, events have compelled cover treatment of the seemingly endless Indochina conflict no fewer than 64 times. Whether or not some sort of final resolution of war is at last at hand, the anonymous Vietnamese orphan on the cover of this week's issue seems an inescapably appropriate symbol of the military and political, but above all human drama that is the subject of the 14-page section on Indochina...
...ghastly symbol of the unending agony of Viet Nam. In a country seemingly fated for tragedy, even a basic humanitarian gesture had ended in disaster, the result of yet another failure of the American technology and know-how that a decade ago had been billed as the key to the country's salvation. High U.S. Air Force officials suspected that sabotage might have caused the C-5A crash, not faulty technology. Whatever the cause, for Americans last week the mournful events in Viet Nam represented the disintegration of a long and painful effort. For South Vietnamese they represented far more...
...Peter J. Gomes, preacher to the University, blessed the new building saying it is a "symbol and sign of where we have been and where we have...
...prophets tell me anyway. We'll be seeing awards for "Best Holographic Effects in a Documentary" and the winner will come up and say something nasty about President (Julie) Eisenhower and her foreign policy. Then he'll get booed down because President Eisenhower is a personal friend, benefactor and symbol of about half the people there. And Bob Hope will make a joke about...
...real parents' names, O'Neill clearly showed that he felt a parallel to his mother's drug addiction and its role in stunting his father's capacity to become a great actor. Blacks, in this play, are not so much a race as a symbol for what O'Neill's mother regarded as the dark, tormenting world of the stage...