Sentence examples for a public memory from inspiring English sources

They create a public memory".

"The output of the residency becomes a common public memory of ideas and techniques, things which may have been hidden in the artists' professional processes are staged, explored, and disseminated," explains Elliot Woods.

Sweeping generalisations about "the Germans" are out of place both in serious historical scholarship and in an informed public memory.

The final frenetic scenes of the Vietnam War were branded in public memory a quarter of a century ago when a daisy chain of helicopters ferried frantic refugees from the American Embassy rooftop in Saigon to aircraft carriers bobbing in the South China Sea.

As a researcher on terrorist attacks and public memory, I commend your call for a temporary memorial to the Sept. 11 victims (editorial, Feb. 26).

By the time Congress is back in session and ready to take up gun control, Newtown will be fading a little in the public memory.

"Generation's End," by Scott L. Malcomson (Potomac; $27.50) ["Generation's End"] extends to a time when "the public memory of September 11" became "more useful to the powerful and increasingly useless to the rest of us".

This sense of responsibility eventually led Malcomson from the Times to a diplomatic job, and his book extends beyond those first weeks to a time when "the public memory of September 11" became "more useful to the powerful and increasingly useless to the rest of us".

"I really do think that a more informed, dynamic public memory is going to emerge as we start to see the walls of oral history archives coming down," Boyd says.

Even in the most acute cases, such public memory is a form of storytelling insofar as it involves a perspective and the delivery of informational material from that perspective to an auditor, viewer or reader.

The last nine months have seen a struggle to reshape the public memory of Britain's first world war.