Word: revisionists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anastasia and Pocahontas, however, fail to fall within the basic parameters of historical dialogues on their subject. Commenting on Pocahontas, Douglas B. Rand '98, one of Harvard's veteran Disney watchdogs and self-styled Disneyologist, has observed, "Pocahontas is not even revisionist history. It is not even debating the legitimacy of our current historical paradigm, because Disney is not even entering the realm of debate. Whereas we can have a scholarly discourse on what lens we use to view reality, Disney is going so far afield that they are concocting their own reality...
...Surprising, perhaps, since the U.S. media is generally so skewed towards the Zionist perspective, but not sad, for by no means is every critical exposure of Israeli biased or wrong. This photograph represented a move towards more balanced coverage, while their letter was simply a return to the revisionist writing about Israel and Palestinians that is normalized in mainstream U.S. discourse...
Recently she came under attack from those who believe, as George Orwell once wrote about Mahatma Gandhi, that all saints should be judged guilty until proved innocent. In 1994 Britain's Channel 4 broadcast a revisionist look at Teresa that was harshly titled Hell's Angel. Written by Pakistani-born leftist Tariq Ali and British columnist Christopher Hitchens, the program claimed that the Missionaries of Charity accepted donations from some unsavory individuals, including Haiti's former autocrat Jean-Claude Duvalier. In return, Mother Teresa and her sisters delivered effusive encomiums in favor of the rich and infamous eager...
When 1776 (songs by Sherman Edwards, book by Peter Stone) opened in 1969, few expected it to make it to the curtain call. A show about the writing of the Declaration of Independence? When the show beat out Hair for the Tony, some folks saw a revisionist plot. Yet 1776--a political debate with songs--could also be viewed as a metaphor for the fight over Vietnam. It was just as rancorous, as full of fury and compromise...
...fact, the revisionist argument reminds me of a celebrated case that happened several years ago at Cambridge University in England. A student taking his exams called over a proctor and demanded that he be provided with "cakes and ale." When the perplexed instructor refused, the student produced a copy of the 400-year-old Latin Laws of Cambridge, which entitled students to cakes and ale during exams. The student was brought Pepsi and burgers, which were accepted as modern equivalents, but he was later fined five pounds for having neglected to wear his sword...