Word: symbolization
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...truth is, the Purple One just wasn’t destined to reclaim the Olympian heights he achieved on “Sign.” There have been some high points since then: “Diamonds and Pearls,” “The Love Symbol Album,” and his previous outing, “Musicology,” all evidenced some of the old magic. And the music press heralded each of them as a “return to form,” but those in the know admit that they came...
...officers, thus erasing their identities. Thousands ended their existence in “death flights”: airplanes from the Buenos Aires airport threw them into the river with deadweights to leave no trace. Fleeting memories drowning in the silence of cold nightly tides: desaparecidos. 1976 is the perfect symbol of the Latin American decade. That year, 11 of 20 Latin America countries were governed by military regimes. The United States and Europe not only overlooked human right abuses, but they actively helped the regimes and often trained repressors. Long gone were the Atlantic System dreams from the ashes...
...signal of strong student support for the EPC reforms. In a Crimson poll of 354 undergraduates last month, 60 percent said they support the plan to push back concentration choice by a semester, while just 32 percent opposed the change. The UC vote is “an exciting symbol of the voice that undergraduates have had in this process,” said a co-sponsor of the bill, Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, who is the vice-chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee. The Student Affairs Committee’s chair, Ryan...
...arguments only reinforce the rising doubts in the minds of some British officials about the solidity of the underlying Britain-U.S. alliance. "We've long had troubles with Washington not considering us a full, trustworthy partner," says a British government source. "The JSF is only the most potent symbol...
...skyscraping government office, roads scaled like highways and a vast Tiananmen-like square. This alikeness results largely from a dearth of professional designers and from the fact that breakneck growth leaves scant time for subtlety. But it also reflects a value system in which city infrastructure is conceived in symbolic rather than practical terms and where extravagance is the accepted symbol for modernity...