Word: tokenized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Egyptian president reacted quickly. According to one account, Egyptian officials rolled a train across the highway at a crossing about 400 miles west of Cairo. There, the march ended. Libyans began flowing back toward their border, while a token delegation reportedly was being flown to Cairo to press their cause. With the merger scheduled to take place in just six weeks, Gaddafi's next move was anybody's guess...
Unlike recent graduating classes, A.C. alumni are a grateful lot. They appreciate the time which instructors spend with them, at cocktails and lunches. And gifts for their teachers are natural. At the China seminar, in token of thanks for teaching that was clearly "no scissors and paste job," money was collected for two Harvard chairs. The general contributions were voluntary, of course. To particularize the gratitude, a scroll was given on which several moving inscriptions were written: "I came for a vacation, I found a marvelous renewal of my life. Thanks very much." "A great intellectual and human experience...
...Token Black. Most people who turned up on the lists were wryly amused and tended to wear their new status as badges of honor. "I prize it more highly than my Emmy award," declared CBS Newsman Daniel Schorr, whom the list described as "a real media enemy." Sidney Davidoff, former aide to New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay, was characterized as "a first-class s.o.b. wheeler-dealer." He was delighted. "The first thing I did was call my mother in Florida and assure her it was a good list," he said. "She wasn't sure...
There was even a token nod to abstract art, which in the past Paul has publicly deplored. As if to underline not only the catholicity of the Pontiff's taste but the ecumenism of the anniversary, the Vatican announced that some donations for the U.S. collection had come from American Protestants and Jews...
Then two catastrophes convert Simon at an even later age than most messiahs. His parents are burned to death in their home: a token of the holocaust that consumes Jews by the millions in World War II. Simon's obsession with the cycles of buying and selling transfers to the cycles of his race: holocaust, Diaspora, and return. The total financier from the Lower East Side becomes just as totally the savior. He sets up a Society for the Rescue and Resurrection of the Jews. In 1945, he recruits survivors of Buchenwald for quite another kind of compound...