Word: displays
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...doubt six million pebbles--three million sitting atop Poland alone--will be quite a sight. And that's the point, of course, said David Poskin, a Brandeis first-year student who is coordinating the display through the Brandeis Hillel. "It wasn't just six million that died," he explained in an interview. "It was six million people. It's more than a number...
Indeed, Poskin and the rest of the Brandeis organizers will make six million mean much more than a number to those participants in the Holocaust Remembrance Week. If six million is too large a figure for many to imagine, then the display and the penny drive will help people associate a six and six zeroes with the six million Jewish people swallowed in the flames of the Holocaust. In this case, assuming everything goes as planned (and Poskin is optimistic that everything will), the project will be a success...
With these facts and numbers in mind, then, the Brandeis Holocaust display and penny drive misses the mark. Why are Jewish lives more important than the lives of other Holocaust victims? Why should Jews alone be remembered by the Brandeis memorial while the other nameless, faceless victims are relegated to the numerical dustbin of history...
THERE will be events during Brandeis' Holocaust Rememberance Week to pay tribute to the Nazi's non-Jewish victims, according to Poskin. But the fact remains that the pebble display makes a powerful statement about the Holocaust, both in whom it memorializes and whom it does...
Like many a great fight, this was not always a good fight. It was not so much a spectacular display by the challenger as a mediocre one by the champ. Tyson looked stolid, muzzy, otherwise engaged. He stood around like a fire hydrant in black shorts, an easy target for Douglas' advantages of height (5 1/2 in.) and reach (12 in.). The champ threw few punches, and fewer of his lethal paradiddles -- left-right-left-right! -- that turn his victims' heads into punching bags and their guts to soup...