Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ceremony assembled members of the Harvard administration and of the Lowell Senior Common Room, many of whom gave toasts to Eck and Austin. One tangible symbol of tradition was the presentation by the Lowell House Committee of the official "Lowell salt," a silver, Stanley-Cup-shaped salt shaker whose presence is required at high table...
...this oppression? In the name of order, holiness and purity! Coordinating the crackdown is the "General Department for the Preservation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," complete with Kalashnikov-carrying religious police who patrol the streets in pick-up trucks flying white flags, the symbol of purity. Aside from killing women who venture out alone to save their dying children, the religious police have lots of duties. They make sure all males grow mandatory beards (violators are locked up for 10 days of "religious instruction"), enforce the ban on music (too hedonistic) and confiscate television sets (the holiness...
...flows from Duke research. Krucoff and Crater have already finished the first part of Mantra, a pilot study to determine, among other things, whether prayer by strangers might influence the medical outcomes of 30 patients in Krucoff's cath lab at the Durham VA hospital. The project, whose symbol is a valentine-style heart with an angel hovering near one lobe, is too small to be statistically meaningful, but the results--the outcomes of those prayed over were 50% to 100% better than those of a control group--were sufficient, as Krucoff puts it, to be "intriguing." He and Crater...
...with the play's governing force from the outset in the form of Bessie Smith's spirit, who croons the blues from behind an ephemeral scrim which effectively separates the realms of action. Casting a huge black shadow on the white of the gauzy scrim, she is a strong symbol of guilt hovering as an angel over a white world, and she is central to any success this show finds in its ability to condemn. Bessie's soulful vocal chords are those of Boston veteran actress Michelle Dowd, whose blues tunes are harmoniously accompanied by a talented on-stage guitarist...
...Ibis back on top of the Lampoon Castle. Everyone knows that scurrilous under-graduate politicos have squirreled the unfortunate bird away in University Hall and, frankly, the remainder of the College community wants that little fowl-ic symbol of good humor back...