Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Solely Animated Movie Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)

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The Sovi­et Union’s repres­sive state cen­sor­ship went to absurd lengths to con­trol what its cit­i­zens learn, seen, and lis­tened to, resembling the virtually com­i­cal elimination of purged for­mer com­rades from pho­tographs dur­ing Stalin’s reign. When it got here to aes­thet­ics, Stal­in­ism most­ly purged extra avant-garde ten­den­cies from the humanities and lit­er­a­ture in favor of didac­tic…

When Christmas Was Legally Banned for 22 Years by the Puritans in Colonial Massachusetts

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Com­plaints in regards to the com­mer­cial-age cor­rup­tion of Christ­mas miss one crit­i­cal truth: as a mass pub­lic cel­e­bra­tion, the hol­i­day is a somewhat current inven­tion. Whether or not we cred­it Charles Dick­ens, Bing Cros­by, or Frank Capra—males not against advertising and marketing—we should reck­on with Christ­mas as a prod­uct of moder­ni­ty. That features the sacred…

The Hand: An Anti-Totalitarian Animation, Banned for Two Many years & Now Thought-about One of many Best Animations (1965)

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For obvi­ous rea­sons, most artwork professional­duced below oppres­sive regimes comes off as painstak­ing­ly inof­fen­sive. For equal­ly obvi­ous rea­sons, the uncommon works that crit­i­cize the regime have a tendency to take action reasonably indirect­ly. This was­n’t a lot the case with The Hand, essentially the most well-known brief by Czech artist and stop-motion ani­ma­tor Jiří Trn­ka, “the…

Group says 4 Cornell college students banned from campus for 3 years

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A professional-Palestinian group stated Cornell College has banned 4 college students from campus for 3 years for collaborating within the profitable Sept. 18 disruption and shutdown of a university-hosted profession honest that included weapons producers. It was the identical protest over which worldwide graduate pupil Momodou Taal stated Cornell had threatened to successfully deport him for…

Navient fined $120M, banned from federal mortgage servicing

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The Shopper Monetary Safety Bureau, led by director Rohit Chopra, this week reached a settlement with Navient after a seven-year authorized combat over the corporate’s scholar mortgage administration practices. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Increased Ed | David Ake and Michael A. McCoy/Getty Photographs Navient, an embattled scholar mortgage supplier, pays again $100 million to scholar…

Ought to Homework Be Banned? Here is What Actual Educators Assume

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Each child desires of it: “Homework banned forevermore!” For so long as anybody can bear in mind, homework has simply been a type of issues children must do as a result of it’s good for them, like consuming their greens. However is it actually as necessary to do hours of homework each evening as it’s…

Marijuana now not banned for some NCAA athletes

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The NCAA has eliminated marijuana from its banned medicine record for Division I faculty soccer championships and postseason, Spectrum Information reported. (Particular person universities have their very own drug insurance policies that apply in the course of the common season, however NCAA guidelines take over in postseason competitors.) Josh Whitman, chair of the NCAA’s Division I…