Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Albuquerque, New Mexico, recently, a different Dick Lugar was on display. Here was Richard Green Lugar--Eagle Scout, Rhodes Scholar, jogger, farmer, grandfather--and Republican sex symbol. When the four-term Indiana Senator strode into a cocktail party at the National Federation of Republican Women conference wearing a broad smile and a blue suit, a hundred ladies were all atwitter. A Colorado woman in sequined denim sighed, "He's such a sweetheart!" A gray-haired matron from Florida had a twinkle in her bifocals: "He's even better-looking in person than he is on TV!" A lady with...
...analysts and business professors by admitting at least by implication that the ideas that guided his previous 38-year career with AT&T were wrong and reversing course after seven years at the helm. For a major corporate executive, that is almost as rare as breaking up the very symbol of Big Business...
George, Mr. Kennedy writes in the inaugural issue, is meant to "to demystify the political process, to enable [the reader] to see politicians not just as ideological symbols but as lively and enjoyable men and women who shape public life." Thus the magazine's title, the first name of our first president. George Washington, we must grant, does suggest an ideological symbol, whereas George implies a lively man who shaped political life...
...equally valid symbol of the tribe's future fortunes, at least at this particular historical juncture, can be found 19 miles away at Wounded Knee, where a band of peaceful Sioux were mowed down by the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in 1890. Here is a man in ragged, dirty jeans and a filthy red T shirt. His face is puffy and pockmarked, and there is liquor on his breath. His hand outstretched, he claims he is the caretaker of the Oglala Sioux cemetery...
...fully aware that in taking stands on issues, I would quickly alienate one interest group or another and burn off much popularity. And I would certainly not run simply because I saw myself as the "Great Black Hope," providing a role model for African Americans or a symbol to whites of racism overcome. I would enter only because I had a vision for this country. I would enter because I believed I could do a better job than the other candidates of solving the nation's problems. I would not expect or desire to have anything handed...