Word: symbolizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thank you for "Thoughts on a Troubled El Dorado" [June 22]. I am a 17-year-old girl graduating from high school today with a peace symbol on my cap. I appreciate the opportunity you have provided for those mentally distant masses labeled the "Silent Majority" to catch some glimmer of understanding into the puzzle of my fellow protesters and students. The political and social extremists in America today may never be able to accept or condone each other's actions, but they must begin to listen and try at least to understand. Hopefully, listening will eventually lead...
...Barber, commander of a Houston American Legion post that will fly 1,500 flags along the city's freeways on Independence Day, spent three years in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. "I was out from under this flag for three years," he says. "It's a symbol that means apple pie and baseball, and a long, hard pull for me without it." Boston City Councilwoman Louise Day Hicks, who wears a rhine-stone-spangled flag pin, defines the whole matter with finality: "The flag is motherhood and apple...
...battle over the flag tends to erase distinctions. Says S.I. Hayakawa, president of San Francisco State College: "You can be a rightist or a leftist and be a patriotic American. When a symbol becomes a fetish, then you make the semantic error of confusing the symbol with what it is supposed to symbolize." The flag in theory symbolizes national unity, but such a unity in the U.S. has always been somewhat illusory except when war or depression joined together the nation's disparate cultures to overcome an overriding threat. In any case, national unity can never be legislated or policed...
...bust represents another step in the creeping rehabilitation of Stalin. Following Khrushchev's speech, Stalin became a symbol for everything that was bad in the Soviet Union's past: the purges, labor camps, secret police. Now, Soviet officials explain, they seek only to come to terms with Stalin as a historical personage who, despite his shortcomings, played a crucial role in the country's recent past...
...Miyazawa to Washington and keeping close watch to see that he did not surrender too much, were 40 Japanese textile executives. Back home they had sponsored an advertising campaign with the slogan: "Do not give in Trademark to of the unreasonable demands." Trademark of the campaign was a bulldog, symbol of tenacity. Miyazawa offered to restrict shipments on 23 items that make up 60% of Japan's exports of synthetic textiles to the U.S. By restriction, however, he meant a growth rate of 12% to 15%. He also insisted that the agreement be for one year only, with...