Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Staff Writer Guy D. Garcia, who wrote the story, the cover image could not have been more appropriate. "Olmos is a symbol of Hispanic Americans' newfound self-assurance," says Garcia, an East Los Angeles native and author of a novel set in the barrio (Skin Deep, to be published this fall by Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "Because the muralists are part of the Hispanic cultural movement, the medium really is part of the message...
Those critics who see in last week's tragedy a symbol of the bankruptcy of America's overall Gulf policy, however, are misguided. They are not unjustified in saying that the Stark and Vincennes tragedies show the Navy's poor preparation for the mission and the policy's lack of definition and reactive character. But they fail to acknowledge its fundamental soundness and general effectiveness...
...colleagues say that Altshuler--who is regarded by many as one of the top political scientists specializing in local areas--is a symbol of that commitment...
...high treason against him. Conducting his own defense, he turned his trial into a shambles as he demonstrated the falseness of the evidence. When his thundering final speech was reproduced in the Western press, Sharansky became, at 30, the most famous of the world's prisoners of conscience, a symbol of hope and defiance in the face of Soviet oppression. Though he was sentenced to 13 years, he had retained what he calls his "spiritual independence against the kingdom of lies...
When Clay Tarver '88 elegantly sweeps his shoulder-length hair back with his hands and gazes silently into the distance, heads turn in the Adams House dining hall. Guitarist, basketball player and social studies major, Tarver is the closest thing to a sex symbol at Harvard...