Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rosovsky says the calendar is a symbol of his state of mind. "I don't think you fall in love with this type of job twice," he says...
...this contention was born a set of arguments that have become politically correct wisdom on campus and in academic circles. This view holds that rape is a symbol of women's vulnerability to male institutions and attitudes. "It's sociopolitical," insists Gina Rayfield, a New Jersey psychologist. "In our culture men hold the power, politically, economically. They're socialized not to see women as equals...
...monitored community. Epcot today is a permanent world's fair that includes two sets of pavilions: scientific ones that celebrate mankind's technological mastery of the universe and a clutch of foreign lands without masses of foreigners -- 11 cultural boutiques that fit around a man-made lagoon as a symbol of human fellowship. "Probably it's much cleaner here than some of those countries you would go to," says visitor Sandy Hyde of Hacienda Heights, Calif...
Baker's lonely crossing was an apt symbol for his fourth peace mission to the Middle East since the end of the gulf war. The Secretary has logged 67,500 miles in two months trying to convince the Arabs and Israelis that they should just get together to talk, but his guests would not budge from positions that make a broadly based parley impossible. Israel would not agree to a United Nations presence at such a conference, while Syria said it would not attend without U.N. participation. Israel insisted that the U.S. and Soviet Union be present only...
...progress as the century went on and their resistance grew, and finally (by the 1890s) turning into doomed phantoms. Its landscapes are prodigious. Its stage material includes the Conestoga wagon, the simple cabin, the tepee, the isolated fort, the deep perspective V of the railroad -- and at the end, symbol of absolute victory over nature, the California sequoia with a road cut through its trunk...