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...pressed to their head.If it can’t truly have the effect of promoting public awareness anymore, then what does lifting the ban really prove? On one hand, I think there has been a populist (and justified) desire to reverse many of the restrictions on freedom of speech and press resulting from America’s last two wars. On the other hand, I think our present understanding of privacy has created a sense of entitlement to what is traditionally considered the utmost private and personal aspects of our lives.Before the advent of digital cameras and the internet, photography...
...Scarecrow.” Though the story itself is not much more than a complicated “The House that Jack Built,” its innovative conversion of language into visual art strongly represents Schwitter’s definition of Merz, which “wants freedom from all fetters in order to shape things artistically.” All things considered, however, it seems there was a reason why Kurt Schwitter was remembered for his art, while his stories were, as the dust jacket says, “little known in any language” before...
...Struggle The decline of the ANC is all the more dramatic considering the moral heights it once occupied. In the years it was fighting apartheid, its mission was clear and its righteousness unassailable. ANC members were freedom fighters repressed by a regime whose racism recalled the worst of European imperialism. Mandela, locked up for 27 years only to emerge with forgiveness for his oppressors, was a secular saint. There was no equivocation here. With the ANC and Mandela on one side and apartheid on the other, South Africa was literally a question of black and white...
...some of those stereotypes of African Big Men." Raymond Suttner, a former ANC activist who was detained from 1975-1983, talks of how once in power the party let "ambition and greed" lead it into "lawlessness, amorality and criminality." COPE founder Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota tells TIME: "To fight for freedom, you need a liberation organization. But South Africa has moved on now. We need political parties than can deliver services to the people, not reward the loyalty of former activists...
...small gathering of huts on a narrow, windswept spur, the Mandelas' immediate neighbors are outspoken about their disillusionment with the ANC. "My life was better during apartheid," says Vincent Ntswayi, 53, who held a steady job in Johannesburg during white rule but has only been intermittently employed since. "Freedom turned out to be just a word. Real freedom, real power, that comes from money - and I haven't got any money...