Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Porterfield adds that however brilliant Ho's work, the researcher is really "an emblem of a key moment, picked to represent the best work of all the AIDS scientists." Ho, a virologist who directs the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, did not make it easy for our staff; he was concerned throughout the project that his work be put in the context of all that is happening in the field. It was only when science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt laid out our comprehensive editorial plans that Ho realized what decision had been made. "Does that mean...
...Money keeps pouring into stock funds--an estimated $16 billion last month--an emblem of the public's love affair with the market...
...express our affinities so publicly on our bodies, all of us--whether we work with first-year students, Key-latch kids or volleyball teammates--are part of the Harvard and Radcliffe community. We know what HRO, IOP and PBHA stand for. What we wear is a legible emblem of our pride in our teams, our houses and our University...
...young aristocrat and nearly a hundred of his troops their lives. When the Union army asked for his body, a Confederate officer replied, "We have buried him with his niggers." Shaw's sacrifice--memorialized by the poet James Russell Lowell as a "death for noble ends"--has become an emblem of the lofty idealism that inspired New England's 19th century abolitionists and their 20th century descendants in the civil rights and school-desegregation battles...
...lesson of their work was that clear, sharp pictures could still have something unearthly about them--when considered in high detail (and in the proper frame of mind) even a patch of moss can look like a message from God, or a projection of the unconscious, or an emblem of the soul. With Callahan, it's not always clear just which of those directions he's pointed in. He hasn't been much inclined to publish long statements of philosophical intent. But he manages all the same to imply that there's more at stake in his pictures than meets...