Word: symbolics
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...love affairs: “But I cling to you for survival / And I know that you are my Bible.” Moderately distorted, muted, heavily punctuated guitar work embraces a delayed lead guitar line; double kick drumming outlines a simple but conspicuously slow tempo, and the crash symbol weaves the disparate strands together. These are all acceptable punk ingredients—or, in the wrong hands, a recipe for nausea. Unfortunately, the latter is the case here. Our first reaction (the gag reflex): Isn’t Blink 182 a bit young to have a tribute band...
...that interest in Harvard, and its history, is broad. In their prologue, the Kellers observe that Harvard is seen as the r-university: the worlds leading repository of higher learning, and the social and economic power that comes with it. Harvard, they aptly point out, is held as a symbol of American higher education to be both rallied around and railed against by thousands. They quote Clark Kerr, the legendary ex-Chancellor of the University of California-Berkeley: Somebody needs to know everything about each college and university but only about Harvard does everybody need to know something...
Normalcy is a potent symbol of resilience after such a tragedy. It is also an understandable means of self-defense to deal with the enormity of what happened. One can only hope that an individual’s return to routine is neither an expression of denial nor of apathy. To go through this tragedy without reflecting should be profoundly alarming...
...forbid television, Afghans could see no pictures of the destruction that had people everywhere else glued to their sets. The immensity of the World Trade Center had to be described. When Afghans asked me about the Twin Towers, I compared them to Afghanistan's giant Bamiyan Buddha statues, a symbol of national heritage that the Taliban blasted to dust six months...
Whatever is built may be seen as a de facto memorial. Says Carol Ross Barney, who designed the new federal building in Oklahoma City to replace the one destroyed in the 1995 bombing: "I don't know if you can build anything that's not a symbol. Every building tells you what people were thinking when they built it." But Oklahoma City erected a separate memorial nearby, and aside from its symbolic presence, says Barney, "there's nothing about the building that specifically commemorates the bombing...