Word: mausoleum
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...After reading the recent disclosures on the Viet Nam War in the New York Times, I say we should turn the L.B.J. Library into a mausoleum for our Viet Nam War dead...
...familiar: the sandwich was once an earl; the pompadour a king's mistress; sadism originated with the Marquis de Sade. Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
...then efficiently erased from public view, and the exterior vestiges of his rule-statues, pictures, street signs -came tumbling down. Only in his native Georgia did his statues and pictures remain in place. In 1961, as a final act of destalinization, his body was removed from Lenin's mausoleum and put in a simple grave near the Kremlin's wall...
...Khrushchev?a collegium whose key figures all along have been Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin, 66, and President Nikolai Podgorny, 67. Yet Brezhnev completely dominated the Lenin observances. He delivered four major addresses that were broadcast over prime-time television and accorded saturation press coverage. At Lenin's wreath-bedecked mausoleum in Red Square, Brezhnev stood slightly but perceptibly apart from the rest of the eleven-man Soviet Politburo, several of whom have recently reappeared after recovery from reported illnesses. He is the only Soviet leader who has spoken authoritatively of late on the two consuming issues of Kremlin policy...
...THIS very moment, a citizen of Moscow is bending over Vladimir Lenin's mummified body-encased in a mausoleum's airtight glass box-and in a tone that is perhaps whimsical, perhaps cynical or rueful, extends a birthday greeting to a dead...