Word: representationalism
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Isn't the mole-man just the underground version of the hobo? Not at all. Hobos came to represent the closest thing in America culture to Tolkien's elves, an unknowable, mysterious race of people who have a completely different world view and want nothing to do with us. They...
Koh said he felt pressure to represent South Korean musicians to the North Korean orchestra as well as possible. At their first rehearsal, the day after his arrival, Koh said, the North Korean conductor insisted on three run-throughs of the concerto.
When I came in in 1997 I got tremendous support from Hillary Clinton. She gave me some very good advice: you can't please everybody. There will be some people who, whatever you do, will dislike you not for what you are but for what you represent. The most important...
Van Jones does not look like your typical environmentalist. He doesn't wear Birkenstocks. He's African-American in a movement that tends to be overwhelmingly white. His background is in civil-rights activism - specifically prison reform - a cause he champions in Oakland, Calif. But Jones, the head of the...
Indeed, it was in this spirit that the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), a national network of local health volunteers, was born in 2002. Coordinated nationally by the Office of the Surgeon General, MRC units represent vital community-based volunteers who heed the call to service and are identified, screened, trained...