Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City police, accusing them of the unwarranted shooting of blacks, including a 66-year-old woman killed as she was being evicted from her apartment. When three blacks were brutally assaulted by a gang of whites in Howard Beach, Queens, last December, the case became a symbol of New York's mounting racial troubles...
Clearly, an artist of temperament lurks beneath Feltsman's restrained exterior, but just how much, or what kind of, temperament is still unclear. Now that the man has replaced the symbol, Feltsman needs to prove he has the virtuoso's fire in his belly...
...state stereotyped as piteously poor and prejudiced, Mississippi has shown its eagerness to cast off the plagues of racial politics, an archaic constitution and rural-dominated economics. One recent symbol: the crowning last summer of a black woman, 23-year-old Toni Seawright, as Miss Mississippi. ! Yet the attitude is hardly unanimous. Last week voters finally repealed a 97- year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage (which had already been struck down by the courts), but they did so by an embarrassingly close...
...reality and the fear. Suddenly a door to the future had been blown open, and what the world saw (or was it mere hallucination?) seemed frightening. A glimpse of monsters out there in the dark. People looked for a stirring of presidential energy, for both substance and symbol to announce that the most powerful office in the world was alive to the danger. What the world needed was focus, intelligence, communication. It needed to hear the voice of an adult. Editorial writers, columnists, businessmen and politicians cried in chorus, "Leadership! Leadership...
...bring out. Who can resist a man who is willing to wade in a medicinal mud bath to retrieve a lady's hat--while dressed in white tie? Not Anna (Elena Sofovna), nor even her dog Sabatchka (the word has deep metaphysical meaning--little dog--and becomes a silly symbol of the relationship between Anna and Romano...