Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BGLSA members also handed out flowers and pink triangle buttons. The pink triangles, which gay men were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps, have been adopted by the gay rights movement as a symbol of pride and support for homosexual men and women...
...Soviets forgot what happened at Babi Yar. And the lack of a proper memorial became another symbol of totalitarian oppression--this time the Soviet repression of ethnic minorities...
Princeton President Harold T. Shapiro surprised returning students this fall by officially banning kegs on campus on August 29, calling the keg "a symbol of the free and easy availability of alcohol...
Then there is the international preoccupation with a benign Utopia -- Europe's reaction against the horror of war -- whose "spiritual" symbol was glass architecture. Besides the familiar Constructivist icons, such as the sculptor Vladimir Tatlin's wooden model for a giant tower that was to commemorate the Third Communist International, there are fantasies by much- lesser-known artists -- the outstanding one being a German, Wenzel Hablik, whose radiant glass towers and many-colored domes resemble designs for the New Jerusalem...
Among other things, Columbus' journey was the first step in a long process that eventually produced the United States of America, a daring experiment in democracy that in turn became a symbol and a haven of individual liberty for people throughout the world. But the revolution that began with his voyages was far greater than that. It altered science, geography, philosophy, agriculture, law, religion, ethics, government -- the sum, in other words, of what passed at the time as Western culture...