Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play's credibility helped by lines like, "Of course, that's only a symbol but we need symbols to protect us from ourselves. A fool destroys men but a fanatic destroys their hope...
...gold in Fort Knox (and other U.S. Treasury stashes) has long been regarded as a sacrosanct symbol of national wealth. Once it was available for purchase only by foreign-government bankers who wanted to redeem dollars that the U.S. insisted were as good as gold; later the U.S. Government would not sell it to anyone. Last week, though, the Treasury announced plans more in line with its current belief that gold has become a mere commodity. On Jan. 6 it will sell 2 million ounces of the glittery stuff at public auction to any purchasers, American or foreign, who care...
...Times Reporter Judy Klemesrud, may not attract many serious suitors, but her powerfully honest portrayal of the stripper-turned-junkie wife of Lenny Bruce in the film Lenny may just earn her an Academy Award nomination. Perrine has already gone into training to become Hollywood's newest sex symbol. "I've experimented with almost every drug known to man," she told Klemesrud. "But now I don't even smoke grass. It gives me the munchies, and I can't afford...
...subjects in two articles on the farmworkers' union battle in the December/January issue of Ramparts. David B. Castro is the secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters' farmworkers' union Local 1973 in Salinas, California, and according to George Baker's article, "The Teamster Raid: Stalled in the Vineyards," he is the symbol of the real struggle between the UFW and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Castro is portrayed as a slick image-conscious operator who feels that if his underlings can't "sell me, I'll lose the [possible union] election." Baker avoids the simplistic statistical approach, the numbers game of wages...
...TIME he died last week, Richard Whitney '11 had almost passed out of the folklore of American capitalism. As we look ahead to the worst financial crisis the United States has faced since the thirties, Whitney's ironic career as the symbol of the best and the worst in American capitalism is worth remembering...