Word: mausoleum
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...barred by a red silken rope and two guards. He promptly ordered the rope sent to the attic, cut the guard force by a third, put the remaining guards to work as janitors. Said Wright: "I came here to make an institution come alive, not to preside over a mausoleum...
Venice, which is the proud home of one of the greatest salons of modern art, should also welcome architects of our age. The Grand Canal will remain grand for remaining alive, not merely a mausoleum of the Renaissance, as it is nostalgically regarded by sentimentalists...
...your picture of the Soviet leaders lined up on the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum: How could anyone-such as many liberals, artists, intellectuals, and so forth-be so gullible as to think that that line of fat porkies . . . could be sincerely and conscientiously interested in the welfare of the masses of people on the earth...
After 3½ hours, the procession reached the top of a hill overlooking Ankara-the modern city built by Ataturk-and stopped before a square-pillared mausoleum, set in a 148-acre park. Up 33 marble steps, each 132 feet wide, went the procession, along floors of multicolored marble, past statues and buttresses inscribed with Ataturk's maxims and bas-reliefs depicting his victories-until it halted at a 42-ton sarcophagus carved from a single block of red, black and white marble. The sarcophagus was lit only by the light from a huge wrought-iron window...
...month hence, Ataturk's body, which has lain in a "temporary" resting place these past 15 years, will be borne with ceremonial pomp to a new mausoleum on Ankara's highest hill. The mausoleum, reached by 33 marble steps 132 feet wide, will probably be the biggest of its kind, until Evita Peron's or the proposed Soviet pantheon tops it. For three days, Turkey's 21 million citizens will do him honor...