Word: symbolisme
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The protest ended in front of Cabot House where BSA President Mecca J. Nelson '92 said the display of the flags displayed a blatant ignorance of their symbolism. Nelson added that she was disappointed that there had been only limited response from the College.
I want to concur with Jacinda Townsend in her two courageous and thoughtful actions: 1) her hanging of the swastika flag as a bold way of forcing immediate attention to the murderous symbolism of a Confederate flag hanging from a Harvard College house; and 2) her withdrawal of the swastika...
May I inform Ms. Kerrigan that the Nazi flag also symbolizes--for fascists and Nazis--"a heritage of character, dignity and courage." But in our epoch and in our place (here at Harvard College), both the Nazi flag and Confederate flag symbolize two instances of the modern world's cruelest...
Wilson's staging destroys the realism of Ibsen's modern drama. Even worse, it trivializes the symbolism of Ibsen's writing. Meaning and impact, far from being subtle or impressive, become clumsy and disjunctive. Dialogue screams out to be underlined, to be noticed.
Nonetheless, the symbolism of the decision was potent, and educators reacted accordingly. "This is an example of something that in the abstract looks like good principle but that results in horrible policy," says Robert Zemsky, director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. "It...