Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would seem to be a perfect subject for him. What is more ridiculous than taking a single life as a way of making a statement about a vast political or social issue? What is more cruel than making an individual, against his will, into a symbol of injustices for which he bears little, if any, personal responsibility and which may even be largely the figments of his assassins' imaginations? The Nada Gang, in short, had the potential for being Chabrol's great summing up. It is instead a botch...
Keene called Moroz, "a symbol of the entire Ukrainian nation and the countries of the Soviet Bloc who are denied their rights...
...miners of Appalachia, Miller has become a symbol of new possibilities in their lives. Like Miller, they are mainly of Anglo-Saxon stock. On the whole, they are proud, patriotic, sometimes violent and yet often deeply religious. For them, the mines are generally an alternative to grinding rural poverty. Those who do not flee to the city love the raw, knobby hill country and the sense of freedom from urban constrictions and pressures...
...Knesset at 29. As a representative of Likud, the right-wing opposition, he maintains a hard line on any concessions by Israel. Olmert sees himself in agreement with Likud chairman Menahem Begin, the former commander of the mandate period terrorist organization, Irgun Zwai Leumi, who has been the symbol of the Israeli right throughout the history of the state...
...night before. I've done it occasionally and I've been sorry afterward, because something that seems terrific when you're in a hurry seems trite afterwards. Usually I write the cartoons first, then draw them. Sometimes I change my original idea--like from a political figure to a symbol of the "innocent victim." That's as opposed to Bernard, Johnson or Nixon. They are guilty figures...