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Word: swastikas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble and not something I want to do my senior year," he said. "But {the opinion piece} is inciting people to come up and do things like put a swastika on my door...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Swastika Found on Eliot Suite Door | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

...what several suitemates called an attack on one roommate's conservative politics, seven Eliot House seniors discovered a swastika taped to their suite's door yesterday...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Swastika Found on Eliot Suite Door | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

Michael B. Garcia '97 found the piece of notebook paper with the hand-drawn swastika at around...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Swastika Found on Eliot Suite Door | 10/17/1996 | See Source »

...addition to their many other accomplishments, the Nazis continue to exert a woeful hold on the Western imagination, as anyone who has attended many postwar productions of opera or Shakespeare can attest. The swastika has become a trite symbol of evil; foot soldiers in dramas tend to goose-step. Things are going a little too far, though, when synchronized swimming--also known as water ballet--fixes on death camps as a motif for aquatic drama. Such was the case with the French Olympic team, which, in preparing its effort for Atlanta this summer, crafted a routine featuring swimmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: SUNK SO LOW | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

...turns beyond the macabre here, as the Maid and the Professor discuss what to do with the body. After deciding on a mass grave for the Pupil and the 39 other pupils the Professor has killed (we learn from the Maid), the Maid produces a red armband with a swastika on it, puts in on the Professor and tells him not to be afraid. "No one will ask any questions" if you wear this, she says and they leave the stage with the body. The Lesson leaves the audience wondering just what it's trying to say. Is it just...

Author: By Emily J. Wood, | Title: Ionesco's Apt Lesson Sends Up Its Own Questions | 11/30/1995 | See Source »

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