Word: symbolics
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...This wall was no symbol...
...grasp the wall's meaning. Junior high school students now read about the Berlin Wall in their history texts. But it was built, flaunted, condemned and destroyed before they were born. But in my time, it was far more than just a barricade, far more than a mere symbol, it was a a very real threat to freedom for all the years it endured...
...cultural histories. Thus some of the Death Ships link back to the awful sense of abandonment envisaged by Coleridge in The Ancient Mariner, "idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean," or in their case a sculpted ship on a sculpted ocean. Who else would envisage, as a symbol of progress, an object like The Last Ray of Hope, 1968--a pair of Westermann's Marine-issue boots, polished and waxed again and again to a perfect, obsidian-like blackness, in homage to Maxim Gorky's remark that a strong pair of boots "will be of greater service...
...genuinely remarkable woman possessed of two rare qualities: flawless taste and nearly limitless wealth. After the assassination, she used both to promulgate the fairy tale. Anyone who searches for the Kennedy myth machine will probably spot Mrs. Kennedy at its center. It was she who invoked Camelot as the symbol of her husband's Administration in the days after his death. In her grief, she summoned a worshipful journalist, Theodore White, and told him that her husband loved the musical Camelot, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and would play the title song as he fell asleep at night...
...valve disease, and are more than 50% likely to have heart murmurs by the age of five DALMATIANS: Inherited hearing defects may be linked to their white pigmentation, and yet dogs with small black spots, not big splotches, and lots of white fur are favored by breeders BULLDOGS: Once symbols of British stamina, the animals often have problems with breathing, even walking SHAR-PEIS: Adults lose many of their wrinkles, but these endearing pooches are prone to congenital skin infections and eye problems caused by the eyelid rolling in on the cornea GERMAN SHEPHERDS: Hip dysplasia, which can bring...