Word: displays
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Populism can display both good and bad qualities. Huey Long transformed the state of Louisiana, aiding thousands of poverty-stricken and poorly educated citizens. Yet at the same time, he nearly became an American despot...
...carry TV signals. The network must also have switches and software flexible enough to allow movies to be shuttled back and forth without a break in the action, even if thousands of viewers want to see them at different times. And it must have screens sharp enough to display text as well as video...
...display, say the vets, is tilted against the U.S., portraying it as an unfeeling aggressor, while paying an inordinate amount of attention to Japanese suffering. Too little is made of Tokyo's atrocities, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor or the recalcitrance of Japan's military leaders in the late stages of the war -- the catalyst for the deployment of atomic weapons. John T. Correll, editor in chief of Air Force Magazine, noted that in the first draft there were 49 photos of Japanese casualties, against only three photos of American casualties. By his count there were four pages...
Meanwhile curators Tom Crouch and Michael Neufeld, who are responsible for the content of the display, deny accusations of political correctness. Crouch claims that the critics have a "reluctance to really tell the whole story. They want to stop the story when the bomb leaves the bomb bay." Crouch and Neufeld's proposed display includes a "Ground Zero" section, described as the emotional center of the gallery. Among the sights: charred bodies in the rubble, the ruins of a Shinto shrine, a heat-fused rosary, items belonging to dead schoolchildren. The curators have proposed a PARENTAL DISCRETION sign...
Second, tolerance breeds apathy. Normally the things we tolerate are fairly unimportant but persistent annoyances. But many of the ideas debated in national political discourse are far from trivial. A parade of skin-heads marching down Main Street is not a minor nuisance to be tolerated but a display of hate that Americans must been unacceptable...