Word: symbolization
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...structure -- conceived by Maya Lin, who designed Washington's Viet Nam Veterans Memorial -- is a round tabletop, 11 1/2 ft. in diameter. On it, along with the 40 names, is carved a chronology of major civil rights events, and over this flows a thin sheen of water, a symbol of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "mighty stream" of righteousness. Said Karen Reeb, daughter of a white Unitarian minister who was beaten to death after he marched with King in Selma, Ala.: "It just eases the emptiness in my heart...
...years it had stood as the symbol of the division of Europe and the world, of Communist suppression, of the xenophobia of a regime that had to lock its people in lest they be tempted by another, freer life -- the Berlin Wall, that hideous, 28-mile-long scar through the heart of a once proud European capital, not to mention the soul of a people. And then -- poof! -- it was gone. Not physically, at least yet, but gone as an effective barrier between East and West, opened in one unthinkable, stunning stroke to people it had kept apart for more...
...changing their status. Yet under Israel's control, the Palestinians enjoy greater social, economic and educational standing than in any part of the Arab world; though unfortunately, Israeli attempts to improve housing conditions in the territories have been blocked by the PLO, which values the refugee camps as a symbol of its cause...
Lutheran Church sources said some marchers in Leipzig shouted, "The Wall must go!"--demanding demolition of the Berlin Wall, symbol of East German repression for three decades...
Perestroika has not significantly improved life in the Soviet Union, Kasparov says, calling Gorbachev "the man who has now become a dictator." And he gets in a few digs at Karpov, as well, labelling him "a symbol of the Soviet system...