Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creature comforts. A special food store for foreigners stocked many American and European goods that were not otherwise available, but the Schecters often had to make do with Soviet substitutes. At one point in the book, Leona Schecter mentions how her children fell asleep clutching American cereal boxes, a symbol of the culture they had left behind. "Well, I didn't," Steven Schecter confides, laughing...
...gray berets are the symbol of the Task Force, Chief David L. Gorski's attempt to modernize the Harvard Police. The members of the Task Force--five patrolmen, one sergeant, and Lieutenant Larry Murphy--patrol Harvard property every night in plain clothes and unmarked cars, patrolling special computerized routes. Murphy, the coordinator of the Force, feeds statistics on the time and locations of crimes into the Harvard Police computer, which then tells him what areas the Force should patrol at what times. Soon with the help of a Northeastern University expert, Murphy will evaluate the progress of the Task Force...
...newly aware widow, Manders' narrow moralism now provides not solace but suffocating oppression. The Pastor becomes the symbol of nineteenth century conventions...
...then, however, wages have risen, and the mobile sewing and light assembly industries have closed down and moved on to Hong Kong, Haiti, Columbia--anywhere they can still get labor for under a dollar an hour. Ironically, even the guayabera, the traditional embroidered shirt that is worn as a symbol of cultural pride, is now imported from South Korea...
...line emerges, sustained by the most elementary event-to-event, casual thinking. Ironically this dearth of complexity is the peculiar strength of his roman policier: the name Maigret itself connotes a kind of thinness, a stylistic baldness. Unlike the elegant Sherlock Holmes, Commissaire Maigret is a bourgeois hero, a symbol of the unpretentious common man; he uses no complicated forensics, no tricks of reason, his habits are ordinary--his only asset is a persistent, though mediocre intellect. Judging from the 300 million copies Simenon's works have sold in 43 languages (excepting Lenin, the most translated oeuvre in all literature...