Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...COURSE, institutional inertia can be tough to fight, especially at Harvard. Almost without exception, Bok was as much the symbol of conservatism as the agent...
...associated with the cold war -- but as an organization designed from the start to be hostile to the Soviet Union, as a force that whipped up the arms race and the danger of war. Regardless of what is being said about NATO now, for us it is a symbol of the past, a dangerous and confrontational past. And we will never agree to assign it the leading role in building a new Europe. I want us to be understood correctly on this...
...instance, if the flag is protected because it is a symbol "vital to all Americans," then what is to prevent Congress from protecting other symbols "vital to all Americans?" Maybe Congress will protect the Liberty Bell, and then the Statue of Liberty, and then portraits of George Washington, and then portraits of Ronald Reagan...
...precious resource, an area of surpassing natural beauty, a source of national pride and, to some extent, the very symbol of our nation. For several years, newspapers had been publishing alarming reports on threats to Baikal from industrial construction along its shores, the felling and rafting of timber and pulp mills' discharge of chemical wastes...
...woman trouble. A small band of scholars is claiming that much of the early work that made him famous, including, perhaps, the theory of relativity, should have been credited to his wife. The accusation would sound comical if it weren't tragic. This is Einstein, our most revered symbol of genius. We've all grown up with the vision of the humble patent examiner who overturned physics, with his corona of white hair and the sad deep eyes that have seen further than you can look. In our minds he floats like a sockless tumbleweed above the grit of mundane...