Word: nea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question-and-answer session that followed the presentation, Meese answered questions about debates surrounding "political correctness," the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Planned Parenthood...
Meese said the NEA should be abolished. "Government should get out of the business of deciding what's good art and bad art," he said...
Bush has retreated on conservative positions on issues. For example, funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is at its highest level ever. Conservatives have long opposed the NEA's grants process, which provides financing for many projects the Right finds objectionable. In addition, Bush has also departed from traditional conservative support for Israel...
...demand that only the former quality be the basis for judging a work's value is to deny art's role in human life and its purpose of conveying and influencing human thoughts and experiences. The value of a work to the viewer and society--which is what the NEA judges are judging when they allocate our society's money--depends on both style and content...
...artists who are suing the NEA have a right to their own ideology. So do those who fund them. If these disagree, no business will be transacted, but no one is attempting to suppress the other. There is a world of difference between refusing to buy a book and burning it. The sooner the artists realize this, the sooner they will drop these unjustifiable censorship lawsuits that make a mockery of all sincere struggles for artistic and moral freedom...