Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Habash delivered a ringing denunciation of the "shameful and disgraceful Reagan plan." Said he: "We did not pay the price of blood in Beirut to record an American diplomatic victory." But then, turning to his old rival Arafat, Habash pointedly called for P.L.O. unity and declared: "Arafat is our symbol...
...success of the dance marathon is so important for us because it is a symbol of all that we've been working towards, that [student participation] has worked for now and it's going to keep working when we leave," said Dale Viola '83. Alan Khazei '83, former House committee chairman, and Viola say that student activity in their class began two years ago when the new sophomores, feeling they had been ruthlessly "Quadded," decided to let the rest of Harvard know that Currier is not a bad place to live. "We felt we were putting on a challenge," said...
...thousand Israelis attended the funeral, in the port city of Haifa, of Emil Eliyahu Greenzweig, 33, the victim of the grenade attack of the previous evening. Professor Elkana Yehuda spoke of Greenzweig, who had recently received a master's degree in philosophy and mathematics from Hebrew University, as "a symbol of love and tolerance." Yehuda expressed his hope that the current national debate would not lead to "the destruction of the Third Temple," a term that Israelis sometimes use for their 35-year-old state. Later, when Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren told the gathering, "Our hands did not shed this...
United States, however, is much more than a vanishing block of ice. Anderson's theme is nothing less than the dehumanizing crackup of modern society, and she treats it with an elaborate structure of symbols and images. Airplanes are a metaphor for physical risk (she was in a plane crash once), weightlessness and enforced camaraderie; dogs become a symbol of nature in harmonious, trusting alliance with humanity; the telephone is used both as an instrument of impersonal communication and the conveyor of whispered intimacies. Although there is no story line, Anderson strings her ideas together with deft, homey wordplay...
...There he conducted many of the more than 700 interviews for his book. Even high school sweethearts and L.B.J.'s first campaign driver were included. At one point, Caro describes the young congressional aide's first view of the Capitol. The author felt it to be a symbol of what Washington represented to the youthful L.B.J. Caro had already located the seedy hotel where Johnson lived at the time, and he knew that the young man kept farm-boy hours. Caro walked Johnson's route at 5:30 a.m. and found that the sun rose just behind...