Word: monolithism
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...Monolith, Calif...
...soon as it is possible the CRIMSON will publish a collection of opinions of Harvard graduates and of architects of creditable standing on the proposed monolith. These will be offered as expressions of sane thinking men with real and valid interest in Harvard and in art. From them far better than from any group of casual undergraduates can come the proper criticism of the chapel. Until it is possible thus to reveal a definitely constructive criticism of the idea of the chapel and the form in which that idea is now expressed the CRIMSON sees no cogent reason for voicing...
...readable story. Quite in this older, manner Mr. Merritt has harked back to Ancient Babylon and spun an interesting and curious, if not so successful, fantasy. Unfortunately the latter's hero makes his first blow in a luxurious apartment in contemporary New York and after demolishing an archeological monolith from Babylon, is whisked back a score of centuries without the slightest warning. He finds himself on a fated galley, the Ship of Ishtar, peopled with two hostile factions factions, the puppets of contending deities. From this point begins a bizarre tale, absorbing enough in itself, but constantly interrupted...
About that unseen monolith...