Word: nea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard can afford to join the chorus of voices in support of the new bill, thereby improving its odds of passage. As a percentage of its total budget, Harvard receives relatively little NEA money, so refusing to accept any grants would have little effect on the operations of the University...
...case is different with the American Repertory Theater (ART). About $400,000--9 percent of its operating budget--came from NEA funds last year. Refusing to sign the obscenity pledge would severely hurt the organization's ability to operate. But accepting the money, on the other hand, would blast the group's artistic integrity...
...case, no one who applies for NEA grants plans to be obscene. The late Robert Mapplethorpe--whose homoerotic photographs put Helms on the warpath in the first place--surely did not consider his pictures obscene, or gross, or even mildly icky...
NONE OF THE truly offensive people in America apply for NEA grants anyway. Andrew Dice Clay doesn't need government money; the public is giving him plenty. And if the public shells out millions to hear, "Robin Leach? I fucked him," on the big screen in Dolby stereo, it appears that community standards are pretty...
While it is okay for the government to fund a certain project to achieve certain goals, and to place restrictions on the use of public money, limiting uses for NEA money is counterproductive. The NEA was not established to fight offensive art, but instead to promote creative art. Truly creative artists often lack money and studio space, and the NEA makes it possible for much otherwise wasted talent to be used for the benefit of society...