Word: symbolism
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...Mess Around with Dan Re Lev Grossman's review of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol [Sept. 28]: To be a good read - and this was - a book doesn't have to be a literary masterpiece. Authors make things up in works of fiction. Anything that will get people to turn off the computer or TV is good, and this book will. Plus, far more people will read the book than will read your review. Clif Sellers, CHICO, CALIF...
...capacity as the old V8-engine plant. It will also produce machined block heads and crankshafts. But it will have fewer than 600 production employees. "The productivity improvements have been just tremendous. But that part of the story doesn't get told," says Zuckschwerdt. Instead, Flint has become a symbol of American decline routinely visited by journalists from all over the world. "It's very frustrating," he says. "Our members are proud of what they do. Every one of us [in the union] wants General Motors to thrive," Zuckschwerdt says...
...Duane Zuckschwerdt, UAW Region 1C director and a member of the union's top executive board, readily acknowledges that Flint is often held up as a symbol of crippling labor-management strife, but he sees the Volt investment as a significant milestone for the city. "I know you go just 50 miles west of here and they think the town is dead," Zuckschwerdt says. "But it's not. GM knows they have a very talented workforce here," he says...
...book that I had bought," Bhattacharya says, holding a yellowish postcard with Mother Teresa's blessings in her writing. "I was going through some turbulence in my personal life during that time, and the find gave me immense hope and strength. For me, it is a sacred symbol...
...Cecil B. DeMille who turned Moses into a symbol of American power in the Cold War. The 1956 epic The Ten Commandments, which in its inflation-adjusted total ranks as the fifth highest grossing movie of all time, opened with DeMille appearing onscreen. "The theme of this picture is whether men ought to be ruled by God's law or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator," he said. "The same battle continues throughout the world today." To drive home his point, DeMille cast mostly Americans as Israelites and Europeans as Egyptians...