Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California state prison at San Quentin is a grim and foreboding symbol of the American way of punishment. The vast maximum-security prison is so old (parts of it date back to 1852) that it is a maze of outdated plumbing, frayed wiring and inadequate sanitation. It is so huge, and so many dangerous criminals are crowded into its antiquated facilities, that it is difficult for the guards to protect inmates from one another. As a result, hundreds of prisoners have been killed and wounded in a decade of violence. State prison officials have long wanted to tear San Quentin...
...Adler is unusually skilled at making careful distinctions and refreshing subjects that have grown dull with familiarity. She can imaginatively argue that constitutional law is based on precepts of storytelling and find probable cause for adultery in the legend of Penelope, Ulysses' wife and a classic symbol of fidelity...
Israel and South Africa have become strongly linked in the eyes of much of the world. It need not be that way. Possible solutions do not offer themselves immediately. But it should be sufficient merely to know that South Africa is an international symbol of the racism and naked brutality which only the worst cynics could believe will endure forever. Should Israel not successfully separate herself from the apartheid state, it may in the long run risk sharing the fate of South Africa...
...political issues but only with hearing out priests, nuns and parishioners, and among the 60 Washingtonians he spoke to there was no shortage of praise for Hunthausen; 252 of the 280 priests in the archdiocese signed a petition of support. "A lot of us see the Archbishop as a symbol of unconditional love here," said Pat Cervenka, a Catholic housewife who went to the airport to hand Hickey her own pro-Hunthausen letter. "The culture in the U.S. is different from Rome...
...said to have built handsome fake villages all along the route of her tour through southern Russia in 1787. Historians doubt this tale, which they blame on malicious court gossip, yet there is something about the idea of "Potemkin villages" that lingers in the memory as a symbol of political craft...