Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pressure. For many, there seemed an almost desperate need to inform individuals about the history of ROTC. An article by Crimson editor David I. Bruck detailing the growth of ROTC on Harvard's campus appeared four times in two years. Students felt ROTC had gone beyond being a partiotic symbol of serving your country while going through college: as Bruck noted, ROTC was increasingly designed to recent college students for lifetime military careers. The idea of ROTC being used to fortify a civilian army therefore seemed untenable. Since ROTC's recruiting efforts were similar to those of large corporations like...
...such a defiant symbol anymore I guess the Hash Bash has to wait for the next generation said one senior...
...dealing with such esoteric issues is especially prone to demagoguery. Insofar as SALT II was a symbol of Jimmy Carter's stewardship of American foreign and defense policy, it barely stood a chance. That was the linkage-the "fatal flaw"-that mortally wounded the treaty. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was the coup...
DIED. Gloria Swanson, 84, quintessential symbol of movie glamour for seven decades; of heart disease; in New York City. Early on, Swanson said, "I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody, from the studio gateman to the highest executive, will know it." Even when she was in eclipse, everybody did. She got her Hollywood start in Mack Sennett comedies, followed by a series of naughty sex farces. Ambitious for more varied roles, Swanson formed a production company in 1927, which numbered among its backers Joseph P. Kennedy (with whom she claimed to have had an affair...
...Armenian hotel room, the second writer also tells the tale of Surkov, this travelling to American woman, does not improvise a story at all but rather explains what it was that brought them all together in the first place--Ararat. The mountain Ararat, sacred to Armenians, is the symbol that connects the three writers, as indeed, it connects all the levels of the novel...