Whatever their aesthetic merits and practical possibilities, the proposals gathered here offer at least a hint of some things we seem to be ready for now: large concepts, critical ideas, clear-eyed remembrance, humor, a possibility of keeping the past in the present and moving the present toward the future.
These are complicated questions with no clear answer during these days of remembrance, reflection and no small measure of sentimentality.
The International Olympic Committee has been clear in its rejection of an opening ceremony remembrance for the 11 Israeli athletes and a West German police officer murdered at the 1972 Munich Games.
But the past is not as simple or as clear-cut as our TV presenters like to suggest during Remembrance Sunday services.
Harry also made clear during his final years that the "official" day of remembrance for those who sacrificed their lives in combat was nothing more than "showbusiness".
Shoppers Drug Mart, a pharmacy chain from Toronto, made the mistake last autumn of trying to clear a final prospectus for its initial public offering on Remembrance Day, only to discover that nine of the 13 regulators were closed.
People have left bouquets atop a clear plastic box that contains several pink Teddy bears and notes of remembrance about the 43-year-old father of six.
It is not clear in what way the sensation of rereading differs from an instance of remembrance sparked by anything that long ago got tangled in one's feelings -- a landscape, a song, a fragrance.
His unabashedly unconstitutional immigration order issued on Holocaust Remembrance Day, no less paints a sick portrait of his administration as clear as Kristallnacht.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance ceremony, held annually on 20 November, was started in 1999, when it became clear that trans people were being murdered in particularly large numbers.
