Word: symbolisme
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But it was insecurity, the symbolism of the whole thing, which seemed to drive us. As one woman wrote, "Is our position here so tenuous that we--and what we have done--can be white-washed away in one morning's work?"
The symbolism was as inescapable as the irony. When the five Central American Presidents gathered last week in the resort town of Tela in northern Honduras, their meeting place was a seaside compound once owned by the United Fruit Co., the U.S. multinational concern that long represented the essence of...
It was a spectacular souffle of politics, parades and visual extravaganzas -- all steeped in historical symbolism, spiced with controversy and served up to the world with characteristic elan. France threw itself a revolutionary birthday party last week, and the world joined in the celebration, as President Francois Mitterrand recalled the...
The most important aspect of Bush's visit was its symbolism. "The Iron Curtain has begun to part," the President declared in an eloquent speech at the Karl Marx University in Budapest. In front of Gdansk's Lenin shipyard, he told cheering Poles, "America stands with you." While offering lavish...
Stories about seafaring inevitably carry a ballast of symbolism. Shimmering significance goes with the territory: people casting off in the little world of a ship, adrift on a journey at the mercies of the elements and fate. In his second novel -- twelve years after his critically praised An American Romance...