Word: symbolisms
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...center stage in world affairs. On the night of October 23, 1956, a crowd led by students and workers, soon to be known as freedom fighters, toppled the colossal statue of Stalin that had dominated the main boulevard of Budapest for close to a decade. That act became the symbol of the 1956 uprising, a quasi spontaneous revolt against Soviet occupation (the Red Army had liberated Hungary from the Nazis in 1945, then refused to go home) and against the dictatorial rule of the Hungarian Communist Party led by Matyas Rakosi...
...country's recent history, I began to understand just how complicated--and at times heartbreaking--was their relation to the past, including the heroic days of October 1956. In the years preceding and immediately following "the Change" (as Hungarians refer to 1989), October 1956 functioned as a single unifying symbol to all those who opposed the communist regime. By 1993, however, it was clear that the ideals associated with 1956--freedom of expression, desire for self-government, liberalization of politics and the economy--meant very different things to different people. The first free post-communist elections...
...Simpson's acquittal last year were reduced to a talisman, a single object of both concealment and revelation, it would have to be the bloody glove found at the Simpson estate. Once considered the most damning physical evidence, the glove became a symbol of murky police conspiracy and prosecutorial miscalculation. Last week Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki gave the glove a starring role in the Simpson civil-case sequel, ruling that the defense would be allowed to argue that former L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman planted it--and by doing so, framed Simpson. Judge Fujisaki called the evidence...
According to Muhammad, last October's "Million Man March" on Washington was part of this effort to restore hope and was a symbol of black unity and community regeneration...
Pipes also said he thinks that the Holocaust should not be used as a Jewish symbol. "Jews have existed for 3000 years....Life is the symbolism of the Jewish religion, not death...