Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charges are justified. In a way, Thernstrom exploits the very person she sets out to elegize. She exploits Lee as a symbol of innocence, a generic representation of society's victimization of and violence against women. But as Thernstrom writes, "Elegies to reality are hard to write...
Eager to reassure I.O.C. members who felt the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics had gone too far in commercializing the Games, the committee liked to stress the city's appeal as a symbol of racial harmony. Now comes the tricky part: making room for both Coca-Cola and the spirit of the Parthenon...
...height of his power in the Roaring Eighties, Charles Keating commanded an estimated $100 million personal fortune, controlled $1 billion in financial assets and counted a handful of U.S. Senators among his powerful buddies. Last week he stood as a wretched symbol of the past decade's financial follies. After the former owner of California's bankrupt Lincoln Savings and Loan was indicted on 42 counts of criminal fraud and was unable to raise the $5 million bail, police handcuffed and jailed him. California alleges that Keating bilked investors who bought $250 million of now virtually worthless junk bonds...
...deliver a physiology lecture every time a friend lights up a smoke. Why no solemn words about the ill-effects of alcohol when those friends pour a drink? No one I know proudly displays cigarette butts in their room, but an empty Stoli bottle on the mantle is a symbol of adulthood. Few Marlboro posters grace the walls of Harvard dormitories, but who knows how many Harvard suites have a Budweiser poster or a neon beer sign...
...should be aware of the danger signs of problem drinking: drinking alone, drinking to get drunk, increased tolerance (currently a status symbol), feeling guilty about drinking, blackouts and memory loss. Socially unacceptable as it is, you would be doing a friend a favor if you pointed out such behavior...