Word: symbolic
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This spring training camp, organized by the Players Association for its unemployed members, is perhaps the best symbol of the bizarre and distressed nature of the national pastime. The walls of the stadium in Homestead were salmon, the seats turquoise and the mood blue. "It feels strange, to say the least," said Velarde. The players were there to get in shape and audition for jobs, but there was only one, count him, one scout there last Friday...
Band of Gypsys was recorded in the very last moments of the 1960s, and this accident of fate actually serves as powerful symbol for the whole album. The concert at New York's Fillmore East which comprises this album took place on New Year's Eve 1967-70. The first side consists of two of Hendrix's most powerful artistic statements, epic versions of "Who Knows" and "Machine Gun." These two tracks can be seen to represent an anguished re-evaluation of the end of an era of optimism marked by the late 1960s. The second side of the album...
...attempt to murder Kunimatsu, coming so quickly after the subway gas attack that killed 10 and injured 5,500, struck at the very symbol of social stability in Japan. Not since the Japanese Red Army terrorized the country in the early 1970s has there been such a brazen challenge to authority in postwar Japan. Says Takeo Mori, professor of criminal psychology at Senshu University: "Anyone can do it anytime, and therein lies the fear...
...death penalty for the reasons I have stated." It didn't take Kaminer's point that support drops significantly when life without parole is offered as an alternative to show that Cassell's argument was naive in the extreme. Politicians' effective use of the death penalty as a symbol for getting tough on crime shows that it, like abortion, is a hotbutton issue, one to which people respond from the gut. Dershowitz's earnest attempts to separate the system of implementation from the death penalty itself is useful for academics but probably irrelevant in the political arena...
...midnight disease" of the writer, a sense of their own strangeness that isolates them from the world. This dark side of writing is introduced in the person of Albert Vetch, a hack horror writer whose suicide Grady witnessed as a child. Vetch floats over the book as a symbol of the true artist, the estate to which Grade aspires: "He was the first real writer I knew, because he was the first to have the midnight disease; to have the rocking chair and the faithful bottle of bourbon and the staring eye, lucid with insomnia even in the daytime...