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...transcendence, making commonplace human rituals nearly sublime by elevating them to the realm of art. However, defamiliarization worked both ways, Boym argued. As a tool of Stalinist propaganda, art could lend a sense of wonder and exaltation, as in the harvest painting that declared the Stalinist slogan, “Life has become better. Life has become merrier.” The actual subject of the painting, a communal dinner in rural Russia, would itself have been unremarkable. But when metamorphosed into a massive genre painting as a monument to Stalinist benevolence, such a banal, benign subject can take...
...publication of Very Thai, a unique guide to Thai pop and folk culture, coincides with the country's biggest debate about national identity in more than half a century. In the World War II era, the military Phibunsongkhram regime rallied under the slogan "Thailand for the Thais." Today, the country seems mesmerized again by nationalism. Schools and colleges have been ordered by the Ministry of Education to display the flag more prominently and play the national anthem at a higher volume. "Thai-ness" is once again a useful political concept: in early February, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's populist nationalism...
...Today [the road map] has no meaning except as a slogan,” he said. “We have to define what the obligations actually mean...
...vote. It is to the Bush administration?s credit that it has repeatedly insisted it will accept the choices of the Iraqi voters, even when those obviously conflict with U.S. preferences. Such flexibility will be indispensable if the Arab democracy project is to be much more than a slogan, because if Iraqi voters who arguably owe their new democracy to U.S. military intervention nonetheless voted against the U.S., there's no reason to believe the outcome would be different in the other key Arab autocracies - genuine democracy would likely produce governments less friendly towards the United States than...
...increasingly assertive Egyptian movement for change and reform has since last December taken the word kefaya (meaning "enough") as its slogan, and organized sit-ins and demonstrations against a fifth term for Mubarak, and to denounce the principle of presidential inheritance, marking their opposition to the possibility that Mubarak be replaced by his younger son, Gamal. Just last week, some demonstrators even took the risk of shouting "down with Mubarak" in a heavily policed demonstration outside Cairo University...