Word: symbolization
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...after a little space other idols (for such King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and crown princess Elizabeth will soon be) were substituted. The basic English truth which emerged is that the Kingdom long ago became and is today neither a democracy nor a monarchy but an efficient oligarchy. Its symbol is the Crown, but the really effective British crowns are the top hats worn by Stanley Baldwin and a few hundred others. They rule over millions of British soft hats, tens of millions of caps and hundreds of millions of Indian noddles. Members of the British Royal Family have long...
Along with Louima, O.J. Simpson, and Geronimo Pratt, Cochran has also represented basketball player Latrell Sprewell and truck driver Reginald Denny, whose beating during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots became a symbol of the historic incident...
...blooded atrocities. 2-28 must be remembered so that history does not repeat itself. Even now, a disturbing number of people have begun to claim that the Holocaust never really happened. The importance of remembering humanity at its worst cannot be stressed enough. But 2-28 is also a symbol for humanity's ability to persevere. In the inspiring courage of many Taiwanese men and women who struggled for freedom and democracy, we may be reminded of the origins of our own democracy here in America and why we must fight to keep it a thriving institution...
...does urinating on the country's second-most photographed statue seem like such a bright idea? As any one of these fine Harvard men might say, it isn't the beer talking--it's tradition. One expects that Harvard College, a world-wide symbol of higher learning might have its share of traditions heaped with pomp and circumstance, like the regalia of Commencement or the Harvard-Yale football game. But what about unofficial traditions, equally important to every undergrad...
...prototypical mayor-as-character from the past was Fiorello La Guardia, who was a symbol of the warmth and ebullience associated with New York Italians. Mayor Giuliani has said that he models himself on La Guardia. This must strike many New Yorkers as the equivalent of Kenneth Starr's saying that early in his life he decided to adopt the style and wit of John F. Kennedy: something got lost in the translation. (Those who believe in a just and vengeful God, as Starr apparently does, must have felt the heavens rumble when, around the time the Office...