Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story of Arcadia is, like most Stoppard plots, hard to summarize in much less than the three hours it takes on the stage. The action in both centuries unfolds in a stately home, a symbol at once of Britain's continuity and of its decay. The 19th century story focuses on a startlingly gifted 13-year-old girl and her tutor, a seemingly shallow, smug university man a decade older. The 20th century story focuses on the present generation of the girl's landed family and on two biographers who are probing Byron's connections to the house, investigating...
Ultimately, the most dramatic policy shift could be the changing view of dams, long the symbol of man's dominion over nature. They are now seen by some as a testament to man's hubris -- redirecting rivers, flooding dry lands and evicting wildlife. For years, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission paid little or no attention to environmental issues as it relicensed dams. Now it is faced with a record number of relicensing applications -- 230 dams on 59 river basins -- and is using this unique opportunity to respond to pent-up ecological concerns, particularly the needs of fish. Many...
Obviously dissatisifed with present, run-of-the-mill name, Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson) has re-christened himself. The pop star is now insisting that he be referred to as the icon oat left, a symbol he devise, for which there is no pronunciation. "This is not a joke," said his publicist. "This is very serious." If other celebrities follow Prince's lead, we could imminently see the following names on the gossip pages...
...choking the algae at the base of the ecosystem's food chain. Cattails now cover 20,000 acres of what was once pristine wetland. Grown thick and tall (some more than 8 ft. high) in the phosphorus-filled runoff of nearby sugar and vegetable plantations, they stand as a symbol of the decades of mismanagement that have brought the famous region to the brink of environmental collapse...
...that locked up Nelson Mandela, have decided that what they cannot fight they should join. Last month Verwoerd stood on an A.N.C. platform in Parow, a conservative suburb of Cape Town, and confessed his political conversion to fellow Afrikaners. "I am much more than just the grandson of a symbol," he told them. "I am the symbol of a new generation who wants to stand up for democracy." Whatever their voting preferences, South Africans have good reason to say amen to that...