"icon"

[Joel S. Berson]

 From "martyr" to "idol" to "icon"?  Not that I think such a
transition is acceptable.

Joel

At 5/4/2013 04:52 PM, Jocelyn Limpert wrote:
>Fucking sick indeed -- CNN is one of many reasons I don't need/want cable.
>Unfortunately it's not just CNN! And why people need to stop uttering the
>oh-so-overused "icon" and "iconic," too!
>
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>On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject:      Re: "icon"
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> > On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
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> > > "Civil rights icon Emmett Till."
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> >
> > That's fucking sick!
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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