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Trenchant criticism

Wilkinson, Tom

The Architectural Review, 2014-12, Vol.236 (1414), p.18-19

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Trenchant criticism
Author: Wilkinson, Tom
Subjects: Architecture ; Ceramics ; Memorials ; Memorials & monuments ; Narcosis ; Nostalgia ; Poppies ; Repressing ; Tearing ; Towers ; Wages ; World War I
Is Part Of: The Architectural Review, 2014-12, Vol.236 (1414), p.18-19
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Description: Wilkinson talks about the centenary of the First World War where the are are better ways to honor the dead than with a proliferation of memorials. Reading about the pious solemnity of the great and good visiting the field of ceramic poppies by the Tower of London, Wilkinson had difficulty repressing a Wildean tear of mirth. But really tears of wage would have been more appropriate, because in this jamboree year for empty sentiment, some things that are worth remembering have tended to get smothered beneath the cosy narcosis of official poppycock: the fact, for instance, that it was the great and good who sent millions of men to their pointless deaths 100 years ago, and who continue to do so today.
Publisher: London: Emap Limited
Language: English

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