Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1980s, Father Martin Smith, acting Father Superior, says, "We need to be honest about the patterns of twentieth century day as opposed to ninth century traditions, to be much more comfortable wearing everyday clothes [outside the monastery] while wearing a habit while we're in community, not using the symbol, as it rings false...
...eclectic, visually daring version of Ibsen's The Wild Duck at Arena Stage in Washington. The play is frequently seen as a domestic melodrama in which well-intentioned people cause calamities; the climactic suicide of a dreamy adolescent girl is generally staged with perverse beauty, as a sentimental symbol of how adult reality crushes freedom of spirit. Pintilie, who brings an Eastern European's Marxist sensibility, has exposed a vein of social criticism about the corrosive effects of wealth and envy...
...symbol" economy of financial flows outweighs the "real" world economy of traded goods and services by a ratio of more than...
...most disturbing development that Drucker describes is the burgeoning "symbol" economy. By that he means the intangible realm composed of capital movements, foreign-exchange transactions and credit flows, which have ballooned enormously since the leading Western industrial nations decided to abandon the system of fixed exchange rates in 1971. Drucker warns that Washington's use of high interest rates to finance its budget deficit through foreign borrowing has caused a dangerous "politicization" of the symbol economy, a trend that he sees other countries starting to imitate in, for example, their selective manipulation of currency exchange rates...
...march winds past the White House--symbol of oppression. The marchers begin to sing something about Ronald Reagan, Jerry Falwell and garbage heaps in back alleys. Some women slam down red-painted coat hangers on the pavement. There is a huge pile of twisted wire in front of the White House...