Word: symbolics
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...probably one of Dwight Eisenhower's worst miscalculations, though he never admitted it. Berlin "was politically and psychologically important as the symbol of remaining German power," the Allied Commander wrote later. "I decided, however, that it was not the logical or the most desirable objective ... To sustain a strong force at such a distance from our major bases along the Rhine would have meant the practical immobilization of units along the remainder of the front. This I felt to be more than unwise; it was stupid...
...just grotesquely wrong to say, as the President said last week, that German soldiers are as much victims as those whom the Germans tortured and murdered. There is also a distinction to be drawn between Hitler's soldiers and the Kaiser's. Mitterrand's choice of Verdun, the awful symbol of World War I, shows a grasp of that distinction. The choice of Bitburg does...
Indeed they cannot. As Coke discovered to its sorrow, fiddling with the formula for the 99-year-old beverage was an affront to patriotic pride and perhaps more. "Some people felt that a sacred symbol had been tampered with," said Robert Antonio, a University of Kansas sociologist. Glenwood Davis, marketing manager for Coca-Cola Bottling in Roanoke, Va., said that he received a letter from a woman who said, "There are only two things in my life: God and Coca-Cola. Now you have taken one of those things away from...
...hope shared by the spacemen is that by working together toward a common goal, the two nations might somehow put aside their differences. "It's hard to imagine a more dramatic and fitting symbol on behalf of the human species," said Sagan. "We should embrace not the god of war, but the planet named after...
...play’s commentary on the definition of gender. The male soldiers used lances, whose phallic significance was emphasized by constant thrusting at the women, and the women carried axes, hinting at castration and emasculation. Ida’s university, Castle Adamant, itself seemed to serve as a symbol for the female genitalia, since the Prince and his courtiers had to “penetrate” it in order to win over the Princess and the students...