Word: mausoleum
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...speaking stage since the Restoration is beginning to crumble, Atkinson urges that "not only Shakespeare but modern playwriting needs the poetic freedom of some sort of platform stage." He warns: "Anyone who now builds a theater tied permanently to a proscenium stage is likely to find himself with a mausoleum on his hands before he has amortized the mortgage...
Leaving no doubt that he was talking about Alemán's lavish new University City (TIME, Feb. 23), built at a cost of more than $25 million in the Mexico City suburb of Pedregal de San Angel, Justice Corona snapped: "All that material grandeur is a mausoleum in which is buried the dignity of Mexico. Would to God that in its place we had a well-kept park with a floral sign saying the nation is still ashamed...
...death was played out to its end. A silent 35,000 massed in the flower-banked vastness of Red Square. Thousands held black-bordered portraits of the dead man. A 750-piece band stood motionless. Tall, grey-coated guardsmen paced silently before the great red and black stone mausoleum Stalin had built for Lenin, and now is to share with him until the government builds a promised new Pantheon for Stalin, Lenin and all the lesser gods of Communism...
...Stalin) and then, slightly choked by emotion, Old Bolshevik V. M. Molotov. At 11:55 a.m.the orators were done, and the world was noting the order in which they spoke-Malenkov, Beria, Molotov. At 11:58 the body of Stalin was pushed behind the big metal doors of the mausoleum. At the first stroke of noon by the Kremlin clock, a wave of sound-artillery salvos, clanging chimes, blasting factory whistles-ranged across Soviet Russia and its satellites. Thus was the conqueror laid to rest-not with a prayer, but with whistle's scream and cannon's roar...
Clearest indication of the dimout is the unpublicized decision to change plans for Evita's mausoleum. At the outset, the idea was to hold a world competition for the design of a colossal monument, then build it at one of Buenos Aires' main street intersections and preserve Evita's embalmed remains within, perpetually on view. By last week, the site had been changed from downtown Buenos Aires to the grounds of the presidential residence in the Palermo section. Evita's monument has been consolidated with an old project for commemorating the descamisados. Under the latest plan...