Word: symbolically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have to get over with, but certainly shouldn't enjoy. Many Hampshirites say they spent years hiding their love of math in school, even while pursuing it, so as to be more socially "acceptable." For such students the liberating effect of the program is enhanced by the elitist symbol of YP17; one alumnus calls it a "weirdness we definitely have in common," explaining. "You know, and the other program people know, but nobody else knows...
After months of indecision, for example, the President finally came out for a diluted version of the Voting Rights Act, even though that 1965 statute is a symbol of modern emancipation for blacks and Hispanics. At the same time that he was demanding budget cuts in social programs, he allowed Congress to put together a tax bill with new loopholes that benefited special interests and the rich. Reagan named a woman to the Supreme Court, thereby keeping a campaign pledge. But apart from the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor, he has opposed virtually every important item...
Johnson sketched himself a symbol, a blue eagle clutching a cogwheel and a sheaf of lightning bolts, to be displayed by all employers who complied with the new codes. Then he called for a public boycott of anyone who refused. He asked for union volunteers to act as monitors. And Boy Scouts too. He even used Army Air Corps bombers to ship NRA banners and placards around the country. Said Johnson: "When every American housewife understands that the Blue Eagle on everything that she permits to come into her home is a symbol of its restoration to security...
...ceremony reflected renewed concern about Shcharansky, who became a world-renowned political prisoner and a symbol of official Soviet anti-Semitism following his well-publicized trial in 1978. A champion of human rights in the U.S.S.R., he had been made the victim of a trumped-up treason case. Shcharansky was accused of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to three years in prison and ten in a hard-labor camp, despite his denial and President Jimmy Carter's categorical refutation of the charges...
DIED. Eduardo Frei Montalva, 71, former President of Chile (1964-70) and longtime leader of its Christian Democratic Party; from complications after an operation; in Santiago. A symbol of the U.S. determination in the 1960s to prevent Communist takeovers in Latin America and achieve reforms democratically, Frei won the 1964 election against self-professed Marxist Salvador Allende Gossens with considerable help from the CIA, but his efforts at reform were thwarted...