Word: symbolization
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Even when they presided over healthy local economies, some black mayors became preoccupied by the needs of the middle class, black and white, at the expense of poorer constituents. During Maynard Jackson's two terms as mayor, from 1974 to 1982, Atlanta became a symbol of New South prosperity. In the 1970s, however, the number of black households in the city classified as poor actually increased by almost a fourth, to 31%. But Jackson jolted the local white establishment by aggressively demanding that black businesses get a share of city contracts. As a result, his tenure is so fondly remembered...
Weak gravity becomes a symbol for the way America holds together. It's used to explain why, despite the danger and chaos that snakes through us, we have some sense of a national character. We are loosely held, we fly off, reattach, reemerge, continue. This is what we are--which sounds like a strange kind of unity, but this behavior, this trait, whatever you want to call it, is what has always bound us together as Americans; has been ever since Huck Finn lit out for a new territory...
...mayor is the one symbol that can inspire people to change their attitudes and return a city from hysteria to harmonious sanity. I can't be sure--but that encounter outside Penn Station might not have happened if New York had voted for another four years of Ed Koch...
Even before he takes office or is even elected, the symbol of Dinkins and the hope he represents has the real potential to make a positive change in New Yorkers' attitudes about race--and that is what David Dinkins really offers New York...
...clincher, of course, is that Bill once had a blind date with Janis Joplin. He's the man of the hour: a father figure, a sex symbol, and he's fighting for what's right...