Word: enola
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RESIGNED. MARTIN HARWIT, 64, head of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum; in Washington. Harwit fell victim to the controversy over a planned exhibition of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atom bomb. Outraged veterans believed the exhibit would have been too sympathetic to Japanese views of World...
...million project. It is also one of only three sculptures showing F.D.R. himself. This all seems rather simple, but in truth, telling history is a difficult task these days, filled with experts, historians and special interests. Recently war veterans pressured the Smithsonian Institution to change its presentation of the Enola Gay. The original script for that World War II exhibition, they said, implied that the use of an atomic weapon on Hiroshima was overkill for a blameless enemy...
Conservatives on the Hill seem unable to make the principled argument that while government ought not police the arts and the humanities, government has absolutely no obligation to subsidize the academic left or, as with the Enola Gay, offer it the platform of the country's most revered national institutions...
...Enola Gay affair has given the American people a rare glimpse into the corruption of our institutions of national culture. Perhaps our timid revolutionaries will use the upcoming hearings on this fiasco to show some courage: call cultural corruption by its name and cut off the subsidy. Not cut-cut off. Zero out. Let heads, and agencies, roll...
...controversial exhibition commemorating the end of the conflict. After months of heated debate, officials of Washington's Smithsonian Institution last week withdrew plans to display artifacts and photos of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead visitors will see the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress plane that flew the Hiroshima mission, and a videotape of its crew. While Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama called the decision ``regrettable,'' Hiroshima survivor Koshiro Kondo was more emphatic: ``We had hoped that the feelings of the people of Hiroshima might have gotten through to the American...