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This historical exhibit is typical of the aggressive multimedia style that will characterize the National Civil Rights Museum when it opens its doors in Memphis at the end of August. Here the sit-in movement will be commemorated by four mannequins seated at a Southern lunch counter as the wall behind them broadcasts footage of the taunts and attacks of an actual white segregationist mob. Will these exhibits be inspiring, living history or a parody of the Disney style? What is one to make of a museum whose board chairman, Tennessee Circuit Judge D'Army Bailey, says seriously that...
...will push the barriers of good taste in its quest to create a sense of historical immediacy and emotional context for a jaded theme-park generation. "We estimate that 60% of those coming to the Civil Rights Museum will not have been old enough to remember the 1960s," explains exhibit designer Gerard Eisterhold. "We are trying in the exhibits to give them a You Are There feeling...
Marshall's willingness to see broad promises where conservatives saw narrow guarantees was precisely what made them cheer his departure last week. "Marshall's jurisprudence was Exhibit A of the judicial activism that conservatives have been trying to do something about for the last 20 years," complained Alan Slobodin of the Washington Legal Foundation. "He imposed his personal views into clauses of the Constitution where it wasn't authorized...
Dershowitz reserves some of his bitterest venom for Jews who fail to join him in his crusade to confront. Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky? A "house Jew." Ditto for Rabbi Ben Zion Gold of Harvard Hillel. Anyone who fails to exhibit sufficient chutzpah (Dershowitz determines how much that is) is falling into the same rut that led to discrimination, pogroms and Auschwitz...
Traces of that attitude linger. During the parliamentary debate, Deputy Leonid Sukhov, a taxi driver from the Ukraine, warned that free movement of citizens in and out would open the Soviet borders to AIDS. Officers of the KGB border guards mounted an exhibit of guns and drugs seized by customs agents as a warning of what could be expected if the frontiers are opened. Nonetheless, the law stoutly declares that "each citizen of the U.S.S.R. has the right to exit and enter the Soviet Union" and that this right "cannot be arbitrarily denied." Full implementation was put off supposedly...