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Just as the homosexual community adopted the word “gay,” some atheists have employed a similar method to educate others and improve the image of atheists in society. A few years ago, Paul Geisert and Mynga Futrell, of Sacramento, California started the Brights Movement, an effort to encourage the use of the word “bright” to refer to anyone with a worldview free of the mystical and the supernatural. “A bright” is totally different from being bright. The word was not chosen because brights consider themselves...
...then, that the photographs which sustain and reward lengthy viewings are those that shift the focus away from naturalistic subjects. “Shamanistic mirror worn at exorcism festival” (1923) shows a large, round, ornamented, and polished metal mirror. Surrounded by swatches of a colorful robe, the bright, silvery-blue hue of the mirror is radiant. Rather than merely reflect the viewer—the mirror’s original purpose—the photograph offers a transcendent enchantment.This soft glow, as if the print were lit from behind, is common to the most persuasive of the photographs...
...Reid, SEA BRIGHT...
...with bright eyes and wispy hair tells a story. R. Baldwin Lloyd came to Virginia Tech as a chaplain 50 years ago and never left. He was part of a lecture audience on campus the night Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. A cheer went up when the audience heard the news. Later a near riot erupted when Virginia Tech's few black students lowered the flag to half-staff. Since then, "we've opened doors to people from all over the world!" Lloyd marvels. This college town, where black and white, male and female, Puerto Rican, Indian...
...NEIL SHEEHAN, PULITZER PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR OF A BRIGHT SHINING LIE, WHICH DETAILS AMERICA'S FAILURES IN VIETNAM