Word: symbolize
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...tape recorder was unveiled in 1900 at the Paris Exposition, to which visitors flocked to be scandalized by Rodin's non-Victorian statues, and Kodak introduced the Brownie camera, an apt symbol of a century in which technology would at first seem magical, then become simple, cheap and personal. The Scholastic Aptitude Test was born that year, permitting a power shift from an aristocracy to a meritocracy. The Wright brothers went to Kitty Hawk to try out their gliders. Lenin, 30, published his first newspaper calling for revolution in Russia. Churchill, 25, was elected to the House of Commons...
...Brezhnev era, Lenin's dream state had devolved into a corrupt and failing dictatorship. Only the Lenin cult persisted. The ubiquitous Lenin was a symbol of the repressive society itself. Joseph Brodsky, the great Russian poet of the late 20th century, began to hate Lenin at about the time he was in the first grade, "not so much because of his political philosophy or practice...but because of the omnipresent images which plagued almost every textbook, every class wall, postage stamps, money, and what not, depicting the man at various ages and stages of his life...This face in some...
...popular imagination, Hawaii has no more potent a symbol than the hula dancer, usually a youthful beauty with a dreamy smile undulating to the rhythmic strums of a ukulele. Far different from the showbiz representations however, is the hula in Hawaii. In all of its sacred and ceremonial forms, the hula is an integrated system of poetry, movement and rhythm. The MIT performances displaced any Hollywoodish notions that the audience might have had, impressing upon them the beauty, power, and aloha imbued in the hula. When asked about his impressions after his first encounter with Hawaiian culture, MIT sophomore Mike...
Members pay a small initiation fee, get a keypin as a symbol of their membership and also have the opportunity to attend functions sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa...
...intrigued by the historic events and people captured by that panoply. But I noticed how few women appeared on the covers you selected. Out of 89 covers, there were eight featuring identifiable women. "Let's see," we could tell our daughters, "you could be a glamorous sex symbol (Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna or 'All-American Model' Cheryl Tiegs), a 'Living Saint' (Mother Teresa), an outlaw (the fictional Thelma or Louise) or a princess (Diana, of course)." Thank goodness for Jackie Joyner-Kersee. BARBARA HEALY SMITH Milton, Mass...