Word: symbolics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better or worse. Marilyn Monroe, the paramount platinum goddess, became an indelible work of Pop art. The Kennedys gave off an aura in which Americans basked, happy to think that the U.S. had become a place where you could grow up to be royalty. Princess Diana, conversely, became a symbol of Everywoman's search for happiness...
Epps came to be a symbol of Harvard's conservatism when, as an assistant dean of the College, he resisted the protestors who forced administrators out of University Hall in the 1969 takeover. He was later one of the three University affiliates who presented disciplinary casesagainst the students involved...
...Through collective bargaining agreements the unions have agreed to contracts they have," he says. "We assume that's a symbol of fairness and equity in negotiations...
...Harvard name, the place and its prominentscholars have become a symbol for something muchmore...
Experts on academia say people look to Harvardfor an academic--and to a certain extentcultural--example and to the leader of theinstitution as a symbol of what Harvard standsfor...