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摘要

In the South, even a small change in schedule can carry historical overtones. The Virginia Historical Society long held its annual meeting on General Robert E. Lee's birthday. Eventually, the January sessions were abandoned: not because admiration for the Confederate icon cooled, but because of awful winter weather. When the meetings were reinstated several years ago, they were staged in April, during Richmond's usually glorious, dogwood-dappled spring. For some this innocent explanation was not good enough: they resented what they considered a slight to the general.