Word: symbolized
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According to Professor of Sociology Emeritus David Reissman, both concentrations have "importance both as a symbol and as an intellectual discipline...
Even more than the international monetary and financial system established at Bretton Woods or the strategic policy of containment enshrined in the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan remains the preeminent symbol of American liberal internationalism in the postwar era. It exemplified how capitalism's ends could be served by humanitarian means and provided the prototype from which domestic "Great Society" programs and Third World development assistance schemes, such as the Alliance for Progress and the Caribbean Basin Initiative, were later designed. A testament to the power of dollar diplomacy, it has helped to shape and maintain U.S. leadership in world...
...Brenda Frazier was not the richest or the most beautiful girl in '30s America, she came close enough. She was the glittering symbol of privilege and glamour; her picture made the cover of LIFE; women imitated her Kabuki-like look, with a complexion evoking Colette's description of "milk in shadow." Brenda was seen with notables from Errol Flynn to Cardinal Spellman to Irving Berlin. But obscurity overtook her, and in later years she viewed her life as a cosmic joke: she had become one of the most famous people in the nation simply because of a debutante party...
Vanderbyl is responsible for more superb corporate logos than any other designer of his generation. Ordinarily, logos tend to epitomize the worst tendencies of modern design: distilling a complicated business into one simple symbol almost inevitably results in bland, meaningless abstraction. Vanderbyl's best occupy that ambiguous zone just this side of abstraction; although highly refined, they suggest serendipity and imperfection, the real world in other words. For a World War II shipyard turned condo development, a star of horizontal stripes is given a trompe l'oeil, waving-flag wrinkle. For a printing company, a triangle is composed of lithographic...
...cast a pall over the country's second biggest industry, tourism. No one was certain all week who was actually running the troubled paradise. The violence and unrest were a trauma for a country whose racial harmony had led Pope John Paul II last year to call Fiji a "symbol of hope for the world." Said Agricultural Minister Jo Nacola: "We haven't ever had scenes like that before in the history of our country...