Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle for supremacy in the Palestine Liberation Organization [Nov. 21] is not a fight over who will better the lot of the Palestinian refugees. It is a struggle for political and personal power. The Palestinians are a symbol, and their worth increases with their sufferings. The P.L.O. leaders know that solving the Palestinian problem would benefit only Israel and the refugees...
There is no reason in economic history why the American cowboy ought to be any more interesting than, say, the American steelworker or coal miner. Yet in some complex translation of reality into the collective American myth, the cowboy became a national ideal, the symbol of civilized individualism riding west. The state of the cowboy myth became a gauge of American values, of the way that the nation envisioned good guys and bad guys: the wholesomely, vapidly manly Buck Jones-Tom Mix model gave way to a post-World War II demigod. John Wayne, who had none...
...felt free to sit with each other or to sit somewhere else. I don't think it's a symptom of any greater racial problem here." But Moses' sentiments are not always them norm. Whites often interpret the existence of Black tables as an indication or at least a symbol of racial tensions. And for Blacks, the existence of tables is a minor detail of race relations next to the general racial atmosphere at the University. The non-existence of a Third World cultural center and the severe paucity of tenured Black professors makes Blacks wary of attending Harvard...
...shouldn't be too hard on Harold Stassen. In certain respects, he's a symbol of the democratic system. After all, anyone who's over 35 and native born may run for president. And if no one else decides to challenge Reagan in the Republican primaries. Stassen may do better than he has in years. This is the first time Stassen has run against an incumbant and there is always the chance that peope fed up with Reagan might just vote for anyone but Reagan...
...really 'sexy'." She describes the "pink-checked young Playmates whose every pore and drop of perspiration had been air-brushed out of existence. Hefner was 'puritanical' after all..." Certainly the centerfolds gave men something to look at, but it was the advertisements in the magazine--every new male status symbol from sports cars to cologne--that had the greatest effect on its readership...