Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts is a virtuous bore. Until ten years ago, with a few resolute exceptions like Georgia O'Keeffe, Mary Cassatt and Louise Nevelson, women artists were shabbily treated by American museums and either omitted from their collections or treated as token presences. The...
Disturbances also broke out in Kwangju, but the most touching confrontation there involved not protesters but Lee's mourners. The victim's family had planned to bury him in a family plot in the city's main cemetery. His fellow students, however, insisted that he should be interred at another...
In 1985 he delivered a now famous speech marking the 40th anniversary of Germany's unconditional surrender, in which he eloquently addressed the moral dilemmas raised by President Ronald Reagan's visit to a Bitburg cemetery which contained the graves of S. S. officers.
Von Weizsacker has been specially praised for a1985 speech he delivered on the 40th anniversaryof Germany's unconditional surrender. Many saidthe speech was an eloquent response to the moralproblems raised in Germany and the United Stateswhen President Reagan visited a Bitburg cemeterythat contained the graves of members of theS.S.--the...
Today it is difficult to imagine the bones, the icy graves, the miseries and horrors that took place in Stalin's Magadan. Whatever it was in 1937, Magadan in 1987 is a very different place. The region's 552,000 residents are better housed, better fed, better clothed and better...