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“The rec center coming back symbolizes that the Palisades will come back,” Lindsay said.

But over time, it came to symbolize a particular kind of person: the diehard, unthinking supporter of an authoritarian regime.

If one believed that the star-spangled banner flapped “o’er the land of the free,” then protest during its veneration – not against it, as was deliberately misconstrued – is precisely the affordance that the ritual symbolizes.

The area also symbolizes an inevitable truth about London: Without the thronging masses of tourists, and the attractions designed to amuse them, the city might disintegrate completely.

My grandmother and aunts and what the church symbolized: “You serve.”