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...present in the Natalie campaign. Second, they must deal with the lies and misinformation that the supporters of abortion rights have spread for decades. We feel it is our moral duty to speak up whenever it is clear that the common knowledge is wrong. For example, one abortion urban myth is that for the first several months of gestation “products of conception” (a popular euphemism in the 1980s) are just undifferentiated blobs of cells. We hope that our pictures and posters dispel this myth...
Boyle, who will travel to India, said his interest in that country was first piqued last spring in Literature and Arts C-18, “Hindu Myth, Image and Pilgrimage...
...need another way to make room for the social at Harvard. The puritanical roots of the University run deep—feeding the myth that being an effective and successful student requires constant seriousness and social abstinence. If we don’t already do so, Harvard teaches us to compartmentalize our lives—working hard on one hand, playing hard on the other...
...Hero, a stirringly patriotic hymn to China's founding myth, is similarly unprovocative, giving Chinese audiences a past they can be proud of without making them think much. Zhang concedes that the movie lacks the intellectual and emotional heft of his earlier works: "Hero is a genre piece. Its message is very simple, but it breaks ground visually. The audience will remember the aesthetics more than the story. Its message is a message of peace. But there's nothing particularly exciting about that message unless it's taken in the context of the genre, where it's something...
...inclined to think of political art as a separate category, but Cosimo did not. Everything--myth, allegory, history, erotica--was assimilated to his glory. When he was barely out of his teens, and had been Grand Duke for only a couple of years, he had his court artist, Agnolo Bronzino, paint him as a peacemaker: Orpheus enchanting the wild beasts (civic discord) with his music, and naked in an allusion to his prowess as a lover. Cosimo encouraging the arts, Cosimo fostering scholarship, Cosimo bringing wealth, Cosimo subduing the city's enemies--there was nothing that Cosimo's artists...