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...also gave the public the opportunity "to enjoy others' creativity and to realize that they, too, have creative potential and the ability to invent and succeed," Delaney said...
...myth is embedded in oddments of visual memory (stereotypes, propagandas, stray entertainments) and in a few national epics like the story of the Kennedys, with its bright, shining moments and its darker subplots and disgraces. The narratives that Americans need may be somewhat more advertent, and morally organized. People invent stories to explore their own behavior and to imagine their own possibilities. Few moments in America's moral life have surpassed the soliloquy, product of Mark Twain's imagination, in which Huck Finn agonizes over what to do about turning over the runaway slave Jim to the white authorities. Huck...
Some Czechs believe that Havel is too idealistic for politics. But his resignation may prove to be the shrewdest move in the game. He may now help invent a new Czech constitution and then become the first President of the new Czech state, with powers greater than those he has just abandoned...
...were years of economic expansion and political self-assertion. Before Columbus ever sailed for the New World, the allied kingdoms of Catalunya and Aragon already possessed a far-ranging Mediterranean empire. And in what was to become a predictable pattern (aside from the city's prodigious capacity to re-invent itself time and time again), the citizens of the city fought for their rights during many nerve-fraught periods. Their successes are notable: the Usatges, for instance, dates from a century before the Magna Carta and is essentially a medieval charter of citizen's rights. In addition, the Consell...
Gaines didn't really invent the magazine, didn't toss in ideas, didn't recruit new editors or writers or artists. Rather, he carefully oversaw the details of the business and by the (mainly) happy force of his personality helped whip up the wiseacre clubhouse chaos from which Mad emerged. "He always said, 'You're going to have to carry me out of here,' " Meglin remembers, "because he didn't have many interests. Mad was his life's work, his hobby, his social life...