Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson staff applauded convicted felon and Cambridge City Councillor William H. Walsh, for removing the display from its case in City Hall. "Pornography is... not art," the editorial alleged. "It shouldn't be subsidized by taxpayer dollars, and it shouldn't be displayed on public property." This statement is bizarre, considering it has nothing to do with the issue. When did dildos become pornography...
...staff goes on to complain that City Hall staffers have covered their tracks by saying a "jury of professional artists," and not the staffers, chose the items on display. Cambridge's elected officials have "sought to insulate themselves from controversy," claims The Crimson. This would appear so, and I am angered that Cambridge officials would not defend their own decision to exhibit the artwork. This is the one place I agree with the staffs editorial, for they go on to take a fascist stand...
...does the artist who created the display. The city of Cambridge should not be condemned for presenting challenging idea. It should be applauded. Theodore K. Gideones...
Rabin and Peres, the other recipients, are equally undeserving. They will be awarded the prize for an act of pacifism--giving up force as a means of achieving peace without ensuring responsibility in return. In today's world, this display of pacifism is heralded as noble, even heroic. But pacifism is not peace...
...smiled and replied, "Certainly!" and that was that. In a striking display of immodesty (I would later be out-done here), we posed in front of a camera and snapped the shot you see here...