Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbol seems more appropriate for Angell than for any of the sports other scribes. Baseball is loved for its everyday consistency, and the majority of its sportswriters are equally reassuring and revered for their predictable accounts. But it is the Ron Guidrys and Pete Roses that continue to redefine baseball excellence and make the park worth coming to. In the baseball-writing world, Roger Angell serves as the dazzling star, who not only plays the game but shapes it, enchanting baseball fans and others for the past 20 years. The long, expansive articles, the smooth, artistic personal accounts offer...
MasterCard and Visa are counting heavily on that type of consumer reaction. Says Fran Schall, a Visa vice president: "This will be a status symbol for many customers. It will be very important to pull it out at a business lunch, especially when colleagues may not have the same card." Adds MasterCard President Russell E. Hogg: "Recognition is one of the greatest marketing tools in America, and the gold card is recognized as prestige...
...vast sweep of this "cosmopolitan center" quickly becomes apparent Libraries, museums, dining halls, parking lot--they are all here. There are special programs in dance, in preparation for being pre-med (women only), and of course, Ukranian Studies. The powerful symbol of the Ukraine appears repeatedly throughout the Register. "Beginning Ukraine." "Intermediate Ukraine." "Advanced Ukraine." "Religion and politics in Ukraine Since 1917." Relentlessly, the vision of the Ukraine slams into the reader's pysche, jarring loose the inevitable question. "Why does Harvard offer so many courses on the Ukraine in its summer session?" Clearly, there is no simple answer...
...minutes of lobbying time, only to have the secretary ask, almost casually, what he thought the role of the federal government in education should be. O'Brien, in defending financial aid as a priority for university money, similarly sticks to that level of discourse, calling aid-blind admissions a symbol of "the promise that higher education has assumed as its burden--the promise of democracy, that able people can get ahead...
...Prime Minister. In Britain the old celluloid trouper will canter with the Queen through Windsor Great Park before becoming the first U.S. President ever to address members of both houses of Parliament. Finally, after a NATO summit session in Bonn, there will be a pilgrimage to that oppressively ugly symbol of Communist tyranny, the Berlin Wall. The schedule is exhilarating and the pace exhausting: on one day of the trip, the President and Mrs. Reagan will have breakfast in Versailles, lunch at Rome's Quirinale Palace and dinner at Windsor Castle...