In effect, Mr. Obama would be insisting that two fractured countries plagued by ancient tribal rivalries and modern geopolitical hostility find ways to work together and transform their societies.
The Young British Artists, as much as anyone else, needed someone to express total hostility to their work, to act out the part of the arch conservative.
Standing at a lectern in a gray-and-white striped prison jumpsuit, Ms. Montes said she hoped her case would "encourage our government to abandon its hostility towards Cuba and to work with Havana in a spirit of tolerance, mutual respect and understanding".
The Group of Five continued working together in the 1920s, during which their reputations solidified and hostility to their work gradually diminished, but eventually the group split apart; Andrade and Oswald de Andrade had a serious (and public) falling-out in 1929.
It can breed hostility among people who need to work together.
His early career as professor of philosophy was also deeply (and adversely) affected by neo-Kantian hostility to his work.
It continues to work, even while hostilities appear to be cooling overseas.
Their refusal to work together and frequent outright hostility had only made those challenges harder.
Morsi took quick actions last week to condemn the Israeli assault, buying himself time with his own public to work diplomatic channels to end the hostilities.
Such hostility to Baroque works, however, did not immediately eradicate their influence on 18th-century artists, as can be seen, for example, in an early work by Canova, "Daedalus and Icarus" (1779; Museo Civico Correr, Venice), executed before he had been to Rome.
