Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forbidden to meet as a discussion group, a number of Petofi hotheads gathered together at the monument of Sandor Petofi on the morning of Oct. 23. Before a group that grew in size every minute, a young actor, holding a volume of Petofi's poems, recited a poem famous in the 1848 revolution. Many onlookers wept, and by unspoken consent it was decided to go to the statue of General Bem, the Polish general who led the Hungarians and was crushed by the Russians the following year. Without orders from anyone, the crowd formed in ranks six abreast, crossed...
...Streetcar lines were torn up, pavement stones had been piled into barricades, great buildings had been reduced to rubble, and fires still burned in others. There was not a whole pane of glass in the city. Nor was there a single Red star to be seen, or a Soviet monument. Even the boots of the gigantic statue of Stalin had been smashed to bits. The monstrous leonine head, spat on and befilthed, had long since disappeared...
GALLIPOLI, by Alan Moorehead. A monument to the British defeat by the Turks at Gallipoli in 1915-which, like many another military disaster, is better remembered for valor than for folly. Combat writing that can stand with the classics in a much overwrit ten field...
While Memorial Hall stands as a monument to both the Union's Civil War dead and to the moribund ideas of John Ruskin, it also rests on a plot of very desirable University property. Monuments need not be functional, but when one sprawls grotesquely over ground the size of two football fields, there is some question whether good sense has not been sacrificed to sentiment...
...buildings--such as Houses, departmental offices, and a health center--and even if land in Cambridge could be had by preemption, there would be no reason to build a student activities center. Presuming the University had money to give away, it should give none to build a monument to extra-curricular bureaucracy and centralization...