Word: symbolized
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RIFT has chosen the Persephone myth as a symbol of the change from the matriarchy to the patriarchy that occurred in western prehistory. The natural bond between mother and daughter--between female and female--is forcibly broken. Woman, who possesses the womb and is therefore the source of life, is subjugated to man, whose power and symbol is death...
...integrating that city's schools. Our choice isn't between busing and perfect justice, but between busing and the kind of unequal education documented in the books of people like Jonathan Kozol '58. And just as black people's boycott of Montgomery's bus lines took on a symbolic importance in addition to its real one, so that victory helped spark new militance on other, even more important issues, so the integration of Boston's schools has become a symbol in the eyes of the country and the world...
...been launched in an era of Gallic grandeur. From the moment that the France first slipped into the Loire estuary at St. Nazaire 14 years ago while French President Charles de Gaulle looked on, this ultimate luxury liner sailed the oceans as a glittering symbol of French elegance. A magnificent example of marine engineering, she was the longest (1,035 ft.) and one of the fastest (30 knots) passenger liners afloat. The service was superb (the ratio of passengers to crew was less than 2 to 1) and so was the food. The France's gourmet dining rooms, particularly...
...Partido Revolucionario Institucional), which has ruled Mexico for the past 45 years. They are, however, a symbol of the profound discontent that is increasingly surfacing from beneath the P.R.I.'s outdated revolutionary slogans. Though the economy has grown at a rate of over 7% a year in recent times, it has become obvious that most of the workers and the peasants are being left behind by policies that favor the rich and the upper middle class. Added to that is one of the highest population-growth rates (3.5%) in the world; in the past 25 years the population...
...Brimmer, 47, was the Federal Reserve Board's Jackie Robinson. In 1966, Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the Harvard-trained economist as the first black among the board's seven governors. Brimmer used the job to disseminate controversial, exhaustively documented opinions on black banks (they were more a symbol of black achievement, he thought, than a meaningful source of capital for economic development), minimum-wage laws (they worsened black unemployment by hindering the hiring of unskilled ghetto teenagers) and black capitalism (it was doomed to remain marginal unless blacks could develop large businesses that could compete in predominantly white...