Word: avatar
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HARVARD University fancies itself The Premier University of the West. It is the vanguard of Classical, European and American thought, jealous guardian of its own cultural capital. By virtue of its history, Harvard has become the avatar of the American intellectual tradition. President Derek C. Bok frequently speaks in the most effusive terms on the responsibility of the education system to the American citizenry to a global community...
DANCES WITH WOLVES. If there must be a New Age western, let the Indians be the good guys. Let it be full of horizons unvexed by civilization. And let it star Kevin Costner, the '90s' avatar of Gary Cooper. Let Costner direct it too; he won't let a good old genre down...
Loyola Law School. Southern California's Frank Gehry -- whose buildings are tough, peculiar, playful and often brilliant -- became the architectural avatar of the last half of the decade. His campus for Loyola in Los Angeles (1985), a dense little complex of rough stucco and plywood and cheap steel, is a thoroughly apt, gratifyingly civilized work...