Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview last month with The Crimson, Hafsat Abiola said her mother was a symbol of democracy in Nigeria...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., the well-known professor of African-American studies, has argued, for example, that the Great Hall was a redundant symbol of Harvard's elitist past. Since we have now largely managed to put that past behind us, he claims, we might as well erase its physical evidence as well...
...always off on a crusade, was a distant if benevolent presence. The boy's rearing was left largely to his spirited mother Ruth. "Stubborn but never villainous" is her description of the result. Franklin began smoking as a child by picking up discarded butts, and it became a potent symbol of rebellion. Ruth at one point attempted aversion therapy by making him smoke a whole pack, but she hadn't reckoned on his strength of will: "By the time I finished all 20," he writes, "I must have vomited five or six times...but it gave me great satisfaction...
...known as Asia Minor, in ancient times. So do these artifacts truly belong to the Turkish nation? German and Turkish claims on the Trojan antiquities certainly ring hollow, particularly when you consider that the frieze of the Parthenon and other sculptures taken from the Acropolis in Athens, the crowning symbol of the birth of democracy, still reside as part of the controversial Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. I am sure that the return of these carvings to the descendants of ancient Greece would have "obvious nationalistic appeal," and it would certainly "make scientific sense" to display them in their...
...project was taken over by the Minnesota-based Grand Casinos firm. Locals dubbed the enterprise the Stupak Stump and the Tower of Bobel. But say this about the Stratosphere: the man did it. In time it may fly or fall; today it is the instant dominant Vegas symbol. The Stratosphere could be Stupak's Tinker Toy gift to the gaming industry, or it could be the ultimate sardonic gesture--a giant metallic finger to those who have doubted...