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...bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true - though that distorted reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii...
...Soviet Russia, Boris Yefimov drew for the Communist Party's daily Izvestia, among other publications. Some of his more memorable works include depictions of a weakened Germany during World War II. One such drawing, published in 1941, showed a group of frozen German soldiers carrying a coffin labeled "The myth of the invincible German army." Yefimov later turned his eye toward the U.S., creating a cartoon of Dwight Eisenhower laying claim to the North Pole, a drawing commissioned by Joseph Stalin. Yefimov...
...researched the evolution of war over the past few millennia. “The research projects went in a lot of different directions,” says Renzo Ampuero, one of the student actors. “Some people looked at American behavior abroad through history, some looked at myths of war through history…not just from the Greeks. We explored brotherhood and post-traumatic stress disorder. Throughout the process, we interviewed a lot of veterans and people in service.” Heidi Nelson, one of the dramaturges, says that when they began working on the project...
...summer before her freshman year, Sarah H. Arshad ’09 received a Harvard College handbook listing all the concentrations along with explanations of what they were about.“I remember glancing through it and I kind of laughed like, ‘Oh folk and myth that sounds so funny and that was that,’” Arshad said recently.When she came to campus, she jokingly told her roommate that she was considering majoring in Folklore and Mythology, and then decided she should actually check it out.Today, Arshad is a Folk and Myth...
...York Loves Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival, “A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory” brings light to an artist whose history was until recently engulfed by, as Robinson puts it, “the giant Warhol myth...