Word: symbolisms
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Solidarity is not a monolith, nor is it a creature of Walesa, though he is certainly its symbol and central force. Solidarity's 18-member leadership sprang directly from last summer's 21-day strike, and thus has a distinct Baltic coast flavor. Many are experienced labor activists who have been in trouble with the authorities before. One presidium member, Anna Walentynowicz, 51, was fired from her job as a crane operator a week before the Lenin Shipyard flare-up last August. "The immediate cause of the strike was to have me rehired," she says with a trace...
Walesa is a devout Roman Catholic who rarely misses morning Mass. A wood-and-silver crucifix is prominently displayed wherever he speaks. On his left lapel he always wears a badge depicting the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the revered symbol of Polish nationalism. He wrote a widely reproduced prayer that begins, "Virgin Mary, I come to you in the total modesty of my heart...
...This is a serious setback for the community," David Sullivan added. "The Summer Rd. case has become a symbol of neighborhood attempts to resist Harvard's expansion," he said...
Neighborhood activists have termed the case a major test of community-University relations. "It has become a symbol to people in the neighborhoods," City Councilor David Sullivan said recently...
...symbol of the team's unity, three Harvard runners--Eric Schuler, Felix Rippy and John Murphy--joined together at the finish line of the 3000-meter run and registered a triple victory...