Word: totem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several of our sister insititutions in the Ivy League have totemic animals for their sports teams (tigers, bulldogs and lions). Harvard does not although it is the only university in the world with a patented animal, the transgenic mouse. We should make this our totem. It is relatively clean, easy to carry, and indisputably ours. I can already hear, reverberating in the stadium, a roar that strengthens the mettle of our troops and strikes fear in the heart of our opponents: Go, mice! Professor William Alonso
...plight of AIDS sufferers was worsened by the stigmas attached to the disease, panelists said. "This disease affects gays and IV drug users more [than anyone else]. Can you get lower on the social totem pole?" asked Oliva...
Long after the athletes were back at their Village, the festival bubbled on beside the Han. In the middle of the Village, next to the police station, are two carved totem protectors -- Chang-seongs -- to ward off disaster and guard the peace. Every Olympian has been invited to contribute a small stone to the base of the totems, but most of the kids chattering back from the stadium were preoccupied with their own spirits. Kimberly Santiago, the 26-year-old, 99-lb. rower ("steerer and yeller") from Monroe, Wis. ("the Swiss cheese capital of the U.S.A."), was typically restrained...
...Asia, the Philippines and Greece. His lacy, crisp, fried calamari tentacles in skordalia, the Greek garlic-and-walnut sauce, sold at a great rate, as did the chili-spiced Thai marinated squid. "I have lots of other things on my menu," Schultz explained, "but squid is a kind of totem food. Once people have eaten it, they feel as though they have made a breakthrough...
...Arias plan has become the great totem of the current Nicaragua debate. But it is no substitute for an American foreign policy. Americans still have to ask themselves the basic questions. Questions of national interest: Can the U.S. risk the domination of Central America by a Soviet client state? And questions of national purpose: Is it right for the U.S. to support a guerrilla force fighting a Leninist dictatorship? "Central American" answers to these questions are conflicting and cacophonous. In deciding its own answers, ! America might want to listen to various of these voices. It is not obliged...