Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claims that AFARM "responds to the legitimate concerns of AALARM, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality, not with open and smart discussion but with lame posters and infantile humor." The fruits of AALARM'S "legitimate concerns" include putting their (anti-pink triangle) blue square symbol at the base of the Widener steps the night before National Holocaust Remembrance Day. This was done so that it would be in full view when the names of those who died in the concentration camps were read. Protesting the memorial for gays who died in the and Holocaust...
...Snowden is healing. He still carries crutches with him, but only as a perfunctory symbol. While using them, Snowden looks more like a four-legged person than an injured...
...will also serve as a symbol of young people's commitment to our government's fiscal responsibility," he added...
...editorialists, novelists and booksellers, Rushdie is now principally a symbol because he now symbolizes, now enbodies, certain principles. By discounting his significant meeting, Clinton rejected the worth of these symbols and the principles which follow them...
Students who are lucky enough to get syllabi are possessing of a sufficient status symbol to be considered middle class. The lower classes cower in corners straining to get the merest glance of the professor. Often they will try to borrow a syllabus in order to appear of a higher class, but the pitiful pose collapses as the rightful owner reposseses his prized Xerox. But the syllabus-bearing middle class attempts frauds of its own. Some, for example, perch on radiators and try to look as comfortable in their makeshift accomodations as do the nobility in their plush aisles...