Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wisse said that using the Holocaust as a symbol for the Jewish people brings out their vulnerability rather than their strengths, and added that the Holocaust Museum represents the "triumph of anti-Semitism...
...Dole is a man who trusts in the concrete, the empirical, a man who distrusts philosophizing and grand theory. Economics is not an imaginary curve scrawled on a napkin, but nickels and dimes plunked in a glass jar. Dole's 15% tax cut is his one big idea (the symbol of less government and more individuality), but he is so uncomfortable with it that he has trouble keeping it at the forefront of his campaign, not to mention persuading voters that he actually believes...
Ogletree, chair of the BELL Board, described the foundation as "a wonderful symbol of grad students at Harvard with a commitment to giving as much back as they have received...
...criticisms proceeded on two fronts. One student opposed the very presence of the sukkah, citing it as an example of an inappropriate public religious symbol. Notwithstanding his mildly offensive comments about how "some people in Dunster have influence in the house and can get the courtyard to use for what they support," his position probably speaks to a sizable group of students...
Second, religious diversity must mean that we explore different traditions on their own terms, in their own settings. Common threads are always fascinating, but cannot be the basis for learning about a tradition. A sukkah is fine as an authentically Jewish symbol; as a multicultural harvest hut, it is questionable at best...