Word: symbolics
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...because we wanted to help ensure the safe return of the Adams House gong which has been traditionally used to shame those who are not members of that House’s community into dining elsewhere. Although my major concern with the gong was as a cultural symbol which has helped pull the Adams House community through so many difficult times, that does not mean that I was insensible to its significance as an othering device. I respect Adams’ right to exclude and make up its community as it pleases, even though personally that sort of behaviour...
...fixture on Brattle Street for 107 years. Financial troubles led the once popular Wursthaus restaurant to disappear after 79 years. And just a few years ago, Harvard Square’s Tasty restaurant, still a legend in Harvard lore, was replaced by that symbol of corporate decadence—Abercrombie and Fitch...
...Afghan camps, others entirely local may be bound together less by organizational loyalty to bin Laden than by a commitment to the ideas he personifies - global jihad against the U.S. and its allies. In the language of commerce, al-Qaeda has become a brand, with bin Laden its symbol -a signifier that immediately explains its content. Local jihadi groups in Iraq or Turkey that have no operational contact with bin Laden's leadership cadre nonetheless proclaim their affiliation with al-Qaeda, because that association amplifies the meaning of a specific action - the bombing of a hotel in Istanbul...
...PAROLED. KOBE SCHOOLBOY KILLER, 21, who at the age of 14 became a symbol of Japan's youth crime wave when he decapitated an 11-year-old boy in Kobe, Japan; after spending more than six years in a reformatory; in Tokyo. The killer, whose name has never been released, also admitted to bludgeoning a 10-year-old girl to death with a hammer. Upon his release, a lawyer who represented the killer said he "has grown up a lot in a short period of time...
...1920s. Similarly, he zigzagged from earthy ochers, greens and browns to brilliant fantasy hues; from oil painting to collage and construction; and from works crowded with biomorphic creatures to watery cosmic spaces marked only by a floating line, a dot, a sphere or - most often - a sex symbol or two drawn from his private language of hieroglyphics. By 1934, when the artist was 41, all of Miró's signature elements were in place. By 1961, when he produced the celestial expanses of the three big Blue paintings - hanging together on one wall for the first time as an afterword...