Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Luis Obispo, a scenic town of 42,000 on California's central coast, until recently displayed a road sign with a happy face urging people to SMILE, YOU ARE 192 MILES FROM L.A. Mounting antigrowth pressure is aimed not only at Los Angeles as the symbol of overdevelopment but also at the increasing number of escapees from L.A., whose arrival is regarded as a threat to small-town ways. When Cornelius Deasy, 72, left L.A. to retire there and applied for water-drawing rights to irrigate his new popcorn farm, his neighbors were enraged. "We were the Ugly Americans...
...concept of a "mainstream" is a phantom, an artifact of overcategorizing minds. The Tiber as a symbol of aesthetic transmission has been replaced by the Everglades. The idea of the "mainstream" is kept alive by pluralists, rather as Stalin maintained the memory of Trotsky -- as a bogey. But whatever prejudices and illusions "mainstream" thinking once depended on, racism was not among them, and Bearden got left out of the history books because those who wrote them lacked the imagination to find a frame in which to put his work. Such was the fate of the reflective, mildly conservative artist -- which...
...circus-like event became an oft-cited symbol of a secretive search process that had started to buckle under pressure...
...accordance with its new free speech guidelines, the University did not forbid a Kirkland student from publicly displaying a Confederate Flag although many said they found the symbol offensive and insensitive, calling it a symbol of Black oppression and slavery...
...group--called the National Association of Scholars (NAS)--was formed in 1987 to protect traditional canon from changes which would have added women and minority voices. The canon has become a symbol of embattled scholarship in the time of "political correctness...