Word: symbolizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burned, torn or worn for the sheer joy of doing something naughty and getting away with it." Says Carl Boockholdt, a boutique operator in Indianapolis: "It could be a parody type of feeling, to signify that the red, white and blue shouldn't be such a heavy symbol as it's been." Richard Spiegel, a member of the Boston cast of Hair, says simply: "This generation really has no sacred objects...
...crowd of 20,000 young people gathered on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse to protest. As Republican Governor Francis Sargent looked down, the crowd chanted: "Lower the flag! Lower the flag!" Sargent did so. The encounter was an indirect affirmation by youth of the country's most enduring symbol; the lowering of the flag to half-staff seemed to them a proper and necessary tribute to their fellow students who had fallen...
...South, until recently, the main concern was the use and abuse of the Confederate flag, and the Fourth of July was a Yankee nuisance that coincided with the fall of Vicksburg. Now, there is a new passion for the national symbol. Ronnie Thompson, the mayor of Macon, Ga., enlists the city fire department each day for a solemn flag-raising ceremony in front of city hall. Georgia's Lester Maddox, in the hospital with a kidney ailment, is embowered in red, white and blue floral arrangements...
...signal of distress). No action was taken when an American Legion post near by flew its flag upside down to protest Government inaction over the Pueblo's capture. Last month Michael Sauter, 20, was arrested in Topeka for displaying on his car a flag decal with an overlaid peace symbol. The charges were dropped after his lawyer argued that 1) a decal is not a flag, and 2) Topeka police cars bear decals on which the flag design is defaced by the slogan: "Love It or Leave...
...become the national- even the international- figure known to history. Many soon came to think of him as a defender, almost a savior, of our national integrity. Others, including most people in the academic world, took a diametrically opposite view, and came to see in him a symbol of chicanery, deceit, maliciousness, and at the most extreme, diabolical evil...