Word: symbolisme
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The merger is notable not only for its size and complexity (the fine print of labor law and trade policy will have the lawyers tied up for months) but also for its symbolism. The creation of DaimlerChrysler Akteingesellschaft represents a triumph of the global economy and the end of car...
The murky conclusion to McCarthy's epic contrasts unfavorably with the clarity of his cowboys' laconic dialogue ("Pass the salsa yonder") and terse fatalism ("When things are gone they're gone"). On the other hand there is something unfashionably noble in McCarthy's uncompromising passion to land the big one...
She understood, for instance, the importance of symbolism in fighting discrimination. In 1938, while attending the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Ala., she refused to abide by a segregation ordinance that required her to sit in the white section of the auditorium, apart from her black friends. The...
For seven weeks, though, in the late spring of 1989--the modern year of revolutions--the Chinese people took back the square, first a few workers and students and teachers and soldiers, then more and more, until more than 1 million had assembled there. They set up, in the heart...
Since coming to Harvard, I've often joked with friends that I couldn't possibly get by with any less than six hours of sleep every night. Tales of students with the ability to pull one or even two all-nighters in a row continue to amaze me. Yet Jonathan...