Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell far more interesting things about a crowd at a picnic than a mob in the streets, or about someone like you when you were writing poems and performing in school plays, or just dreaming without a sound, than when murder made you a "national symbol...
...feelings of inferiority grow ceremonies, sacred rituals and symbols of counterfeit power--swastikas, trench coats. One boy, Eric Harris, establishes a home page on the Web: "Welcome to the works of the trench coat." They have become their symbol. Disguised, secure, they are free to cultivate what W.B. Yeats condemned as "an intellectual hatred." For Trench Coat Mafia members no less than ethnic cleansers, hatred becomes an object of intense study, a major, a creed. There is pleasure in it, in being on the outs with society. The boys form a Nazi fan club. They pick up enough German...
...game. The Orioles have reasonably announced that the protestors will be kept out of the stadium. But in attempting to keep political statements out of the parking lots and the mouths of the fans, the team has also taken away any meaning the game might have as a symbol of Cuba's new openness...
...game. The Orioles have reasonably announced that the protestors will be kept out of the stadium. But in attempting to keep political statements out of the parking lots and the mouths of the fans, the team has also taken away any meaning the game might have as a symbol of Cuba's new openness...
...Undergraduate Council has already pledged $25,000 to the University towards the construction of a Student Center as a symbol of how important this issue is to the undergraduate community. And as the semester continues, the UC will continue to press the administration to recognize the need on campus for a student center. In light of the need, and desire, for a Harvard Student Center, the Undergraduate Council has called on the University for the following: make the Student center a priority on the next capital campaign and thereby commit to a timetable for its construction, hire an architect...