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...devoted more than 50 years of his life to campaigning against the watering down of Japan's wartime atrocities in school textbooks; in Tokyo. Ienaga's crusade began in 1965 when he sued the government for rejecting his revised edition of A New History of Japan. Detailing the darker side of the country's past, including the Rape of Nanjing and experiments on POWs, the book was criticized by the Ministry of Education for being "too gloomy on the whole." The Supreme Court finally approved...
...deep, earthy red. Honestly, however, I'd be hard pressed to differentiate the color of an ox's blood from a dog's or a pigeon's (often used to describe the reddest of Burmese rubies). But then, Finlay's vivid writing colors my judgment. By bringing out the darker side to colors, she makes them all the brighter...
...collective faith that technology would lead us to a cyberutopia of robot butlers serving virtual mai tais. With The Two Towers, the new installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, about to storm the box office, we are seeing what might be called the enchanting of America. A darker, more pessimistic attitude toward technology and the future has taken hold, and the evidence is our new preoccupation with fantasy, a nostalgic, sentimental, magical vision of a medieval age. The future just isn't what it used to be--and the past seems to be gaining...
...Australian settlers ruled that half-caste Aborigines were to be removed from their homes and raised by whites; this policy of eugenics by abduction, which continued until 1970, left generations of indigenous people literally and culturally orphaned. In each case, white people pursued social experiments they considered noble, and darker people suffered...
...Aker, and one of the few attractions that lures visitors over the river is the Edvard Munch Museum, which honors the creator of the Scream pictures - the ubiquitous paintings and lithographs, not the ubiquitous teen-horror flicks. Go. The world's largest Munch collection includes the disturbing, darker-than-melancholy images usually identified with the artist, as well as more lyrical works featuring sea scenes and forests - his escapes. Norwegians need nature - one friend told me that "people in Oslo only like it because of the parts that make them feel like they're not in the city" - so green...