Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international folk heroes of this century. Nowhere was Lindbergh's popularity greater than in the United States, where he was welcomed upon his return with massive parades, previously unparalleled in size, and with numerous awards and decorations. For Americans in 1927, Lindbergh was a symbol of the nation's greatness, representing the ingenuity, daring, and stern moral fibre that Americans hoped typified the country. The kidnapping and subsequent murder of his infant son, five years after he flew "The Spirit of St. Louis" to Paris, certainly dispelled his "Lucky Lindy" image-the title of an enormously successful popular song...
...rest have successfully set up as taste makers over a 50-year period when cultural presumptions have changed horrendously. The New Yorker remains a throwback to Matthew Arnold's Victorian faith in a secular religion of truth and beauty. Eustace Tilley, the magazine's monocled symbol, is clearly an Arnold disciple turned dandy. To be impeccable, graceful and hard-hitting all at the same time is demanding work. So is hanging on to a upper-middle-class audience without seeming frivolous or snobbish...
Life became a minute-by-minute ordeal of persecution, torture and imprisonment that stirred world indignation. In the many months that followed, the Panovs emerged as a symbol of oppressed Soviet Jewry. Last summer, finally allowed to enter Israel, they began the delicate process of recovering their...
...music is not repressive in itself, just as other elements of popular culture, such as sports. Hollywood movies and TV situation comedies are not wholly repressive. These parts of American culture do not lie but symbolize the American worker's image of himself and his life situation: they are the evidence of a wish to run away from a present which does not recognize human needs for community, communication and creativity in work as legitimate. They are a protest--however submerged--against the life of the factory, the sales counter, and the office. Yet, the way the escape is made...
DuBois was subsequently introduced, and Steven H. Hobbs '75 presented her with a bouquet which be called "as symbol of God's beauty...