Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relations of the principals and their place within the larger historical upheaval. In one excellent scene, Schanberg tries to question an American official in a warehouse filled with Coca-Cola. Suddenly a mortar barrage blasts the warehouse of cans into gooey scrap, providing the answers Schanberg needed and a symbol of the tenuousness of the Western presence in Indochina...
...last 42 arguments, you have been telling me that men not only have trouble expressing their feelings, they may even be emotionally tone deaf. Wouldn't it be logical for you to argue that women , smile more because they are less blocked emotionally, not because niceness is a symbol of servitude...
...ethos was also unbending. Those who challenged it endangered their academic lives. In the middle of a hockey game, a student skated out onto the ice dressed as an Indian (the Dartmouth symbol which was thrown out by the administration because it was offensive to Native Americans on campus). The crowd went wild. The administration, however didn't join the cheering. They suspended the student, then removed the suspension and imposed a strange penalty; the student had to take a Native American student to lunch every week for a year...
There were other symptoms and ceremonies of healing. The Fourth of July was the most spectacular celebration since the Bicentennial. The Statue of Liberty, swaddled in scaffolding, began a $30 million, two-year overall refurbishment, which has come to be regarded, sometimes almost subliminally, as a symbol of a larger national renovation...
Some successful women leaders, Margaret Thatcher to name one, are gender neutral: they do not speak for the hopes and concerns of women any more than a male leader would. But Ferraro ran for Vice President as a feminist--and as a symbol of the transformation in the lives of American women over the past 20 years. She realized, as did most American women, that her campaign was a risk. Was the risk worth it? The answer lies not with the result but with the women, and men, who looked at Ferraro and sensed a limitless future for their daughters...