Word: monolithism
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...another giant steel company with a capacity of 25.8 million tons (13.4 million tons less than U.S. Steel) and assets of $2.6 billion ($1 billion below U.S. Steel) could actually increase steel-industry competition. For the first time there would be a real rival for U.S. Steel, the undisputed monolith (first in capacity in ten of twelve major steel-producing categories) whose wage and price decisions have hitherto set the industry pattern...
Ordway predicted that the new building will put to shame the Lampon's "pantagruellian gargoylerole" and the CRIMSON'S "mouldering monolith." The Advocate's new home, he said, will be "utilitarian, beauteous, and in superb good taste...
...Dark. In the immediate sense, the big news from Budapest was that the Kremlin could no longer paper over or conceal the splits and fissures in the Communist monolith (see FOREIGN NEWS). Beyond that, Budapest was a new vindication of the old proposition that government, however strong, cannot indefinitely have its way without the consent of the governed, however it might seem to be dulled. "The soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night," Winston Churchill once said memorably, citing this proposition, "can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where...
...baffled by language difficulties. The two biggest Communist nations expropriated the language of Tolstoy and Confucius, and interpreters are available. But who will interpret the language of Marxism, which presents problems more complex than the conjugation of a Russian verb or the tonal inflections of Mandarin? That many-splendored monolith, world Communism, is, in fact, a monoglot, whatever national form its utterance takes; it aspires to give a new frame for human thought...
...least half the students in the University have never heard of its Museum. Most of the other half, if asked about it, would only mumble something about the glass flowers and point toward Malinckrodt, without knowing much else. Yet to half a million visitors annually, the Oxford Street monolith is Harvard...