Word: symbolizations
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...views on U.S. cuisine, and nine times out of ten you'll be told, "They have no cuisine." France, by contrast, prides itself on a strict, regionally based specialization in produce and cuisine that has evolved over hundreds of years. McDonald's, for Bove and his supporters, is a symbol of a standardized industrial approach to food cultivation and preparation, which they see as the antithesis of French culinary culture...
Nine of the 19 tenure appointments this year were women. The most dramatic symbol of this success was its acknowledgement by longstanding Harvard critic Committee for Equality of Women at Harvard (CEWH...
...That symbol of the Old South is still causing trouble. Georgia and Mississippi face battles over their state flags, which incorporate elements of the Confederate flag. The flags may one day be redesigned, but the Civil War stays, because it was about the biggest questions we have: What is equality? Who should have power? What is America? We've never resolved those questions, which is why we remain on the battlefield...
...Jackon. I usually find that he's a bit sanctimonious and takes up too much air in any room that he's in. But what makes Jackson's case so piquant for people is that they see it as a salacious symbol of hypocrisy. Here was Jesse Jackson ostentatiously promoting himself as Bill Clinton's spiritual adviser during the Monica Lewinsky debacle when, at the same time, he was fathering a love child...
...with any self-respecting symbol, meaning is often packed into blackboard words to an unusually high degree. Lectures, primarily aural, are nonetheless calcified by these markings on the board; from their transcriptions students can often reconstruct entire verbal arguments. Blackboard scrawlings thus represent an extremely condensed language; no ordinary words, these can be extremely powerful in the context of memory...