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...good that Bowe had another idea: "This is so easy we should split up and knock out the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia." Why not? The Black Liberation boys became highly enthusiastic about wrecking U.S. shrines. As long as they were at it, why not the 555-ft.-high Washington Monument as well...
...appropriate commentary on the Viet Nam situation is to be found on the monument at Concord Bridge near Boston in memory of the British soldiers who died fighting the American rebels...
Mathematics had been partially unshackled from the physical world by the discovery of non-Euclidean geometrics in the nineteenth century, but the publication of Principia Mathematica in 1908 burst the chains. This three-volume monument by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead expressed the fundamental concepts of mathematics in terms of still simpler concepts of logic, and showed that mathematics may be viewed as a game of manipulating symbols according to rules. Since mathematicians can adopt any rules they want, the truths proved in mathematics can have no necessary connection with the world outside of mathematics...
...Whitehall, past Nelson's monument in Trafalgar Square, by the National Gallery, where the flag hung at half-mast, and into the Strand moved the gun carriage, which had borne the regal corpses of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI. Along the way the pavements were thronged with silent watchers, and the white topees of Royal Marines dotted the route like snowdrops...
NAFBRAT dismisses both The Addams Family and The Munsters not for their ghoulishness but for "suggestive humor and double-meaning dialogue." Peyton Place, says NAFBRAT, is "an obvious exploitation of the sordid and tasteless elements of the Grace Metalious novel, a monument to the network's search for ratings, regardless of the social impact of unrelieved sex and sin." Wagon Train is knocked for its "extremes in sadism and brutality," and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea because it "stirs up political hatred...