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Friday, March 13, 2009

Advertisements from the 50s

I was looking at microfiche of the Dawn from the 50s. The advertisements were kinda great. I scanned a few and am putting them up here.

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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; . . .

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; . . .

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

— Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore

While the fundamentalists — we must recognize their courage — assert their retrograde convictions and announce that, sooner or later, using violence or murder if necessary, they will impose them on everyone, the intellectuals continue to remain silent, terrorized by the threats of the fundamentalists, the screams of the crowds, and the unrelenting hold of religious law, the sharia.

— Decolonization and the Decolonized, Albert Memmi

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Friday, March 13, 2009

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