Word: propagandas
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...Eugenia B. Schraa points out in her review (Arts, “Arts Do Not Prove Summers’ ‘Forte,’” Oct. 27), there may have been some elements of propaganda present in last weekend’s presentation of Forte!, sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office for the Arts. However by completely mocking the entire event Schraa fails to offer any constructive criticism and only manages to insult everyone involved, including the student performers. In her attempt to portray Forte! solely as a calculated move by University...
...Conseil d'Etat, France's highest legal body, stated that outward manifestations of religious faith by students are not "incompatible with the principle of secularity." But the Conseil also noted that "ostentatious or militant" displays of crucifixes, yarmulkes or head scarves constituting acts of "pressure, provocation, proselytism or propaganda" should be banned. The Conseil failed to define precisely what it meant by "ostentatious or militant" displays, and the Education Ministry left it up to individual schools to determine what was a violation and what was not. The result: some French schools ban head scarves entirely, while others have no problem...
...move lazily, with a languor born of chronic underemployment. They are farmers by tradition, but exorbitant taxes have leached any profitability out of their profession. So on most hot days, the local peasants sit on concrete stoops, pant legs hiked up to their thighs, fanning themselves with the latest propaganda broadsheet from Beijing and waiting for dusk to fall. For it is only at night that Xiaoli comes alive...
...question of these performers’ motivations. Summers didn’t put together this deplorable show on his own. Kuumba conductor Sheldon K.X. Reid ’96 agreed to be a part of it, as did countless other student wannabe artists whose presence in this piece of propaganda seriously put their artistic integrity in doubt...
...French President Jacques Chirac will probably demolish what's left of Franco-American friendship. If the two leaders had even a dash of decency, they would admit their faults and work to solve the Iraq problem. The friendship between our two countries was one of our greatest treasures. The propaganda on each side of the Atlantic has been tremendous, and now Americans feel the French are their enemies, when in truth we are their friends. Come back to earth, Bush and Chirac! CHRISTIAN CHEVALIER Grenoble, France...