Word: token
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With Harvard’s help, all Bostonians could continue to enjoy the exhaustive poetic offerings of one of America’s quiet treasures. Students interested in poetry would have a special place to themselves; it would be Harvard’s token of its commitment to poetry. And Cambridge’s threatened culture, its fragile but deeply meaningful traditions, could breathe a little easier...
...would be afraid that the women’s center would not be utilized [in Hilles],” Sarah E. Tavel ’04 said. “It would be a token...
...popular in Hollywood than they are in the rest of the country. So my bet is that the studios will keep hiring him, for two reasons. One: they believe in box office, and Mel delivers it for them. Two: they could then boast they have hired at least a token religious right-winger...
...most Muslim practices—but rather as the invention of a new identity in contention with the national values of a country that has marginalized them ethnically or socioeconomically. For many young women, the headscarf is as much a symbol of repudiation of France as it is a token of belonging to Islam. The intent of the new law is not to undermine cultural diversity—there is no calling into question religious freedom outside the secular setting of public education. It will, however, disarm students of the tools they use in their public schools to define themselves...
...roommates and I took the FAO message to heart. As the inscription on the large, welcoming bronze bear outside the store declared, the place represented “playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.” Schwarz is now my only lasting token of what once was. Though FAO’s fate is still uncertain, whatever the outcome, I hope the magic of that world is not lost to us all forever...