Word: symbolism
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...What’s Going On,’” he said. No doubt we’re meant to read the “Outro”—just the sound of the pen scratching—as a symbol of finality. But there’s a lot left to be explained—the world’s too complicated to fit onto 14 tracks...
...small study, the researchers scanned the brains of 26 men as they each performed a simple task: choosing one symbol from a pair of symbols. After each selection, the participant was presented with a smiley face or sad face, depending on the symbol he had chosen. All men were equally good at learning to pick the symbols that won them a smiley face, but some men were worse than others at avoiding the ones that resulted in sad faces. Those men, it turns out, had a particular gene variant, or allele, that reduces the density of receptors for dopamine...
...levels by 2020, is being proposed by a task force made up of students, faculty, and administrators. Admittedly, we have some reservations about the potential costs and other details for this plan, especially in the context of Harvard’s current expansionary tendencies. Nonetheless, the importance, both in symbol and in practice, of this plan should be under estimated. Given the current public atmosphere toward climate change, both domestically and globally, it is imperative that Harvard throw its institutional weight behind such emission policies. Al Gore ’69 just won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work...
...think it’s wonderful that students can walk through the Yard and see a symbol of Jewish identity,” he said. “It is a beautiful symbol of how Harvard has changed...
...ostensibly counter-culture ’60s. The Class of 1967 entered Harvard ready and willing to shoulder the task of dismantling the apparatus of segregation and poverty in America. Barely a month later, President John F. Kennedy ’40, the country’s greatest symbol of youth, energy, and progress, was assassinated. The boldest politically minded students embarked on the sorts of adventures still cited today; the group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) sparked University Hall sit-ins disrupted by police force in 1968 and mobbed by the hundreds visiting then-U.S. Secretary...