Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women have been given short shrift by male academicians and men in general is an historical fact; however there is nothing inherently sexist in the structure or methodology of the academic disciplines. Women's studies programs may be springing up across the country, but they exist solely as a symbol. There is no distinctly "feminine" science, history or philosophy. Indeed, to imply that there is would be outrageously sexist...
Your photograph of San Francisco's Joe Montana captured the elation and determination of a fine quarterback. Montana is the perfect symbol of this year's 49er team...
...decisions on whether to shift budget strategy, of course, would be taken by Ronald Reagan, who has made the budget less the symbol than the sword of his struggle to reverse the direction of Government. The President astonished even his own supporters by his sweeping victories last year - but that was be fore the recession and the estimates of towering deficits. This year's battle of the bulge will be an entirely new campaign. - By George J. Church...
...dived into the icy river to rescue a survivor of the Air Florida crash. Overnight he became a national celebrity, besieged by thousands of letters from admirers, scores of interview requests and more than a dozen invitations from organizations wanting to honor him. To the President, he was a symbol of American heroism...
...important as how this highly concentrated bit of modern society keeps its humanity when its every move is known. For the most part, the irony of Tolm's character is well realized: privately, he is a decent, doddering family man; publicly, he is an inflammatory symbol in an ideological passion play. But as an ambivalent humanist figurehead for Big Business, he earns little sympathy or credence. It is never clear whether Tolm adequately understands a world where there can be Russian caviar and Cuban cigars on Wall Street and Monopoly sets in the Kremlin...