Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With three granite posts, Propylea is basically a tripodic form with a large crossbar spanning the top. Almost like a geyser, water spurts out the top and spills down the sides. The director of Toledo's art museum, Roger Mandle, has called the sculpture "a symbol of the city's role as a major seaport and gateway to the Great Lakes." To the rest of us, Propylea's massive structure brings to mind to mysterious monuments of Stonehenge...
...come to Harvard as a visiting scholar next year has refocused attention on the University's relationship with its frequent dissident visitors. Kim, who has had a standing invitation to the CFIA since 1973, says he chose Harvard over an invitation from Georgetown University because "Harvard is the great symbol of American democracy." Although some of his supporters fear for his safety while here--he was kidnapped from Japan by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in 1973 and sentenced to death in 1980 by the Chun Doo Hwan government--Kim says he "does not foresee any difficulties" during his time...
...beginning, mayoral gains were mainly in cities with black majorities or areas of rapid transitions to large black populations. Many whites were more willing to support a black for Congress or the state legislature than for mayor. "The mayor is the symbol for the entire city, and some whites do find it difficult to invest that kind of leadership in blacks," says Barnett. But in the past few years, black mayoral candidates have fared better in garnering votes in predominantly white areas. "For the first time large segments of ethnic Americans have to live under a black administration...
...found home movies taken at a Douglas Fairbanks party that show Chaplin dancing with a globe. Something like a decade later, that little improvisation becomes the basis for The Great Dictator's strongest image, that of a power-mad tyrant's lustful pas de deux with the symbol of the world he intends to conquer. From The Professor he salvaged, three decades later, the flea circus routine, now more delicately rendered, that is one of Limelight's comic high spots...
...funeral services and joined in the hour-long procession to the cemetery. Fastened to the front of the casket was a red-and-white Solidarity banner. At the graveside, mourners tossed flowers on the casket and then raised their fingers in the V sign that has become the symbol of Polish resistance to authorities. Many wiped away tears as Przemyk's teacher declared: "Greg, I regret that I didn't have time to prepare you for the brutality of life before it struck you in such a cruel...