Word: symbolization
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...those not astronomically inclined, however, the star continues to work just fine as a symbol. With skepticism but not without poetry, A.N. Wilson, author of Jesus: A Life, notes, "Astronomers will never find the real star of Bethlehem because the real star of Bethlehem is a thing of our imagination. It's the light shining over the Christ Child...
...Helene Cixous essay: In the ticking “minute hand” of the clock that gives the magazine its title, a striking phallic symbol is clearly discernible. Fifteen minutes, after all, is a magazine that explores the interrelations between the two so-called genders at college-age. It highlights both the old-fashion sexual subjugation of young women who “slut it up” on the weekends to the delight of their male counterparts—as well as these same women’s newfound post-feminist sexual liberation...
...year ago, Eric R. Trager ’05 launched an ambitious bid to become a campus sex symbol...
...been more strategic in carving out niches for himself at Harvard. (Note: sex symbol isn’t one of them.) He’s been vice president of both Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) and Hillel. And as erstwhile Republican Club gadfly, Trager has lost an impressive five straight elections...
...Mart is more than a particularly egregious violator of workers’ rights. It has become a symbol of corporate excess. A union at Wal-Mart would show that workers can succeed against even the most powerful of corporate giants. Just an attempt to organize Wal-Mart employees would dramatize the gross disparities in wealth that have come to characterize American society. A public struggle between a CEO who takes home several million dollars a year and his employees, earning a little over the $5.15 federal minimum wage, would demonstrate the kind of greed and exploitation that exists all over...