The government supports every attempt to rehabilitate Horthy and his supporters, says Krisztian Ungvary, a historian, even as anti-fascist writers and poets go uncommemorated.
Though last summer's festival was theme-free, the 2008 edition was devoted fully to celebrating Elliott Carter's 100th birthday, and in 2007, the event looked at the "Generation of '38" — that is, composers whose 70th birthdays would otherwise have gone uncommemorated because of the Carter year.
But lovers rock, drum'n'bass and dubstep labels are just as independent as those peddling, say, power-pop or shoegaze: how is it that such important labels as Morgan Khan's StreetSounds, 4-Hero's Reinforced, Metalheadz, to say nothing of the raucous and huge-selling bhangra being issued by Multitone in the 1980s, can go uncommemorated?
Its achievements have not gone uncommemorated - there have, for instance, been a series of books, without any or all of which your life is badly, perhaps irredeemably, lacking.
Yet that war – one of the most profound events in the nation's history – remains entirely uncommemorated.
The directed blindness of the guide's account (this place has strange effects on passersby, and it's unclear why also, hundreds of uncommemorated slaves were dumped here) got me thinking about America's fascination with the occult and the particular discomfort that spooky explanations can displace.
The subject of "Faces Places" is the heroism of daily life, the recognition of the daily labor and struggles of factory workers, farmers, waitresses, and, for that matter, women over all whose private roles in sustaining the public lives of their male partners go largely uncommemorated.
The American landscape is sprinkled with places that are as central to our national history as Plymouth Rock and Ellis Island but that remain strangely uncommemorated, their very names unknown to most blacks as well as whites.
