This display glories in the advantages a straight chronological arrangement has over curatorial "interventions".
The Soviet virtuoso, sponsored by the state, was meant to display the glory of public life, the nature of its achievements and the promise of an ever greater future; nothing could be sentimental or private.
An apparent consequence is that God must create a world to display his glory.
In 1918, the lynching of a German immigrant in Collinsville, Illinois, for supposed "disloyalty" (more likely, for general obnoxiousness, including having accused Americans of failure to display Old Glory sufficiently prominently) pushed a sluggish Congress into action.
Moscow meanwhile delights in an over-the-top Soviet-era extravaganza that was built to display the glories of the Communist system.
Throwing the party was my host's way of saying, "Hey, I've got floating candles to burn and expensive bottles of Fat Tire beer and $5 cigars to give away!" Not that any of this was conscious my neighbor was not trying to scare off potential rivals while wooing the ladies on the block by displaying the glory of his furniture.
Heads turn towards the display and sing along: "Glory, Glory Glory; Holy, Holy, Holy; God is near to each one of us".
Make a brief detour left, down Rue St-Hélène, for the fascinating Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs (11) at 34 Rue de la Charité (00 33 4 78 38 42 00; mtmad.fr) which displays the glories of Lyon's silk and textile industry.
He suggested that the acquisition and display of the glory hole was in step with a museum's duty to show items which reflect every aspect of social life no matter how scandalous or deviant certain people might deem them.
The landscape work sporting the show's title No Guts No Glory displays a young man staring off into the distance dressed in military garb.
