As wardens cycled through, Crittendon became the institution's memory, conscience, and consigliere; the duties he took on included everything from organizing inmate walkathons for charity to running the prison museum.
In a review of Hazan's essential and encyclopedic The Invention of Paris, published in 2002, Julian Barnes described the author as a "bookish psychogeographer, rescuing historian and committed Benjaminic flâneur; he is memory, conscience and scourge".
I had no axes to grind intellectually, and if along the way issues of memory and conscience and class order arose, that was fine.
"There was the past that served for everyday use, and then there was another past, informed by memory and conscience, more difficult to acknowledge".
Ours are in mass graves and people are turning away from them," said Neela Winkelmann, of the Prague-based European Platform of Memory and Conscience.
Instead, they hold on to Malian rhythms and melodies, and their songs maintain African music's age-old role as the community's memory and conscience.
But unless the lessons penetrate deeply into a corporation's memory and conscience -- its DNA -- human frailty and expediency will likely prevail again.
Two months later, he and the Port Authority put up the sign, and friends posted flyers with a photograph of Dibble and his two-year-old daughter, as an extra prod to memory or conscience.
Clyde Horton, the institutional memory and conscience of the team and school, is a white man whose affiliation with Central stretches back to the Jim Crow years (he first arrived there in 1944).
But Mr. Nossiter's second kind of past, informed by memory and conscience, came into focus with the testimony of the descendants of the victims, those who had been deported by the machinery of collaboration that Mr. Papon embodied.
"Be memory, be conscience, be will and rage", urges the poet, "And keep me cold and honest, cousin coat, / So if I lie, I'll know you're at my throat".
