Word: symbolisme
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The profound psychological density brought to America by its communications works in sometimes contradictory ways. The images of blacks on network TV, for example, can encourage tolerance by overriding local or regional bigotries; for all the talk of a resurrected Ku Klux Klan, it is only a vestige and parody...
Watching on television, getting the word from a neighbor or a passer-by on the street, listening to radios even at the Inaugural itself, Americans learned of the hostages' release and felt a surge of national relief, a rebirth of confidence and hope, however transitory, that rivaled the first...
Tuesday evening, the Reagans threw a glittering dinner for their new neighbors: Washington's movers and shakers. In a week of symbolism, it was one of the most important events: Reagan, who campaigned against "Washington" as the fount of most of the nation's woes, was trying to...
Civil rights leaders are more worried about the vote's symbolism than its practical effects, which may not be extensive. Says N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund Attorney Steve Ralston: "Our concern is that it's the first in a potentially long series of acts by Congress that...
BUT GOLDMAN AND DEMME didn't make him a hero. They don't try to graft any Hero of the American West symbolism onto this resolutely unheroic man; Dummar is no Gilmore, and Goldman is no Mailer. Melvin never gets a cent because the courts rule his will invalid. He...