Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abolition of elite institutions. Labor has accepted a radical motion that would abolish Britain's storied private schools and the House of Lords. The radicals consider the House of Lords a prime symbol of the elitist British class system. One left-wing leader proposed a novel idea for its self-destruction: place 1,000 new barons in the House of Lords just so they could vote to abolish...
...schools to give bilingual instruction to children deficient in English. Bell, who served as U.S. Commissioner of Education under Gerald Ford, called the regulations an unwarranted Federal Government "intrusion on state and local responsibility." And he went beyond that to offer a blistering attack on the regulations as a symbol of the bloated Federal Government. The rules, he concluded, were "harsh, inflexible, burdensome, unworkable and incredibly costly...
Given the transformation of the pre-teen rump into a sex symbol in dozens of designer-jeans ads, and the popularity of "nymphet" models on Madison Ave., staging the book that coined that term once again was more good commercial sense than homage to Nabokov. Although capitalizing on this latest fashion in exploitation shouldn't have to mean joining in gleefully, through much of Lolita that's what Albee seems to be doing. Where Nabokov will choose an elegant pun, Albee lunges for the obscene gag: where Nabokov will subtly makes you think about the arbitrariness of social rules, Albee...
Reagan still acknowledges that registration is a hollow symbol, but he now defends it as a deception worth preserving to reassure allies and foes alike that, in his words, good old America is not going soft again. But does draft registration convince anyone that the United States is getting tough? And, more important, will we help preserve world peace merely by being the biggest bully' on the block...
...first casualty of the new chill was that enduring symbol of detente, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. During the past three Administrations, Dobrynin has been allowed to slip into the State Department building through its underground garage, thus keeping his visits private. But last week the Ambassador was informed that henceforth he must enter via the front door like all the other envoys. When his limousine nevertheless approached the garage as usual, it was turned back, a rebuff that seemed to underscore the verbal bellicosity...