They also elect a ring and crest committee, which designs the class's crest, the emblem that signifies their class and it is embossed upon their class rings.
In a 1972 episode of "All in the Family," Archie Bunker — an emblem of white working-class resentments — defends his failure to report income from moonlighting as a cabdriver as "exercising my loophole".
Thanks to a tradition that swings between satire and miserabilism, they may figure as victims or villains, emblems of class divisions and demographic shifts, or (you suspect, in the near-future) the sullen tinder of riot.
I recall the Renaissance scholar Jackson Cope telling me the story of how, just out of the Navy, a street kid from Chicago, he wandered into a class on iconography and emblems taught by the great Don Cameron Allen at the University of Illinois.
Its many churches, including several world-class gems, are emblems of its European spirit, as is the big statue of the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, right in the middle of the old city.
Chautauqua has its own deeply ingrained rituals, Old First Night Day, for instance, its annual birthday celebration, and Recognition Day, when members of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, one of the oldest continuous book clubs in the country, graduate, each class with its own motto, emblem and officers.
In the end, Diana's emblems transcended nationality, class, and gender, and that is probably why so many people felt that they, too, had died.
— — — — Attack The Block Directed By Joe Cornish The council estate — as the housing project is called in Britain — has always loomed large in British cinema, a brutalist emblem of working-class life in any number of kitchen-sink dramas.
Among older readers and reporters, at least, the newspaper still evokes the memory of its one-time Canadian owner, Lord Beaverbrook, who built it into the undisputed emblem of middle-class, patriotic Britain before his death in 1964.
The elder Mr. Cuomo spoke often of the state budget as a moral document reflecting the values of the state, saying at his first inauguration as governor that a "technically balanced budget that fails to meet the reasonable needs of the middle class and poor would be the emblem of hypocrisy".
