Word: symbolization
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...dare you suggest that Marcus Dupree [Oct. 31] is a great symbol of college football? As soon as the criticism got a bit heavy, Marcus jumped ship. He did not even have the courtesy to inform the coach he was leaving. That shows what a great symbol he is. Dupree will never make the National Football League...
...brief moment in our history, a young President John F. Kennedy stood for the symbol of American youth as vanguard, setting the trends for the rest of the world to follow...
...grave at Arlington every year. Although fewer photographs of Kennedy are enshrined in bars and barbershops and living rooms around the U.S. than there once were, they can still be found in huts all over the Third World: an image of an American President, dead for 20 years, a symbol-but of what exactly? Mostly of a kind of hope, the possibility of change, and the usually unthinkable idea that government leadership might intercede to do people some good...
...decided to name my product after the biggest revolutionary in history," says Maurizio Vitale, 38, president of a booming Italian sportswear company called Maglificio Calzificio Torinese. The product, Jesus Jeans, has become a symbol of entrepreneurial audacity since it first appeared in the early 1970s. Its success, moreover, helped to transform Vitale's company from a staid maker of socks and underwear into one of the fastest-growing and most aggressive firms in Italy. Vitale's sales jumped from less than $7 million in 1970 to $65 million last year...
...life seemed to carry a storybook warning: ambition may lead to power and fame, but the path beckons to a precipice. And her death in a freak accident last week, at the age of 36, will probably give her a place in pop iconography, another televisible symbol of burning drive that guttered out. The reality did not perfectly fit the already emerging legend. But NBC Newscaster Jessica Savitch left resonances...