Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of undergraduates has claimed responsibility for altering a Harvard University Police Department poster of a burglary suspect, saying that they did so to protest racism...
...created the parody to illuminate the racist implications of the police's hurtfully ambiguous poster featuring a subject whose only distinguishing details were absurdly broad," the group, which calls itself Harvard Undergraduates Pointing out Discrimination, wrote in an open letter to Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson...
Those who contructed the wanted poster parody should recognize that their statement--whatever it was--was made in a harmful manner. They should redirect their efforts though a more positive outlet...
...parody is acute, effective and intellectually substantial, despite its debut on a page other than this one. Through wholesale condemnation of Unofficial Political Satire, the staff nicely circumscribes the forged wanted poster's intended message: unjustified racism within the Harvard University Police Department. Rather than dismiss such powerful speech, we should acknowledge a trend so seldom detailed on the leaves of Official Student Thought...
...sound like a Social Democrat, Russia's half a million communists today represent the most hard-line core of the party that once had 18 million members. If voters need any reminding of communism's horrors, the "Forward, Russia!" party of economist Boris Fyodorov has put up a huge poster in Moscow reading: 50 MILLION VICTIMS OF CIVIL WAR, COLLECTIVIZATION AND REPRESSION WOULD NOT VOTE FOR ZYUGANOV. The trouble for Yeltsin and Russia's beleaguered reformers is that on Dec. 17, much of the electorate probably will...