Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...institution's centenary. The play is being performed before large Washington audiences this week, was seen by TV viewers last week in a 17-minute cut-down version. Cry of Humanity was a monument to Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-87), the New England schoolteacher who crusaded from Newfoundland to Louisiana for the "moral management" of the insane, persuaded Congress to open St. Elizabeths...
...would have been happiest of all mothers," comments Ovid, "had she only not thought herself the happiest." Over and above the turn of Fortune's wheel, there is an inexorable change-the passage of time and the certainty of death. Like his contemporary, Horace ("I have reared a monument more enduring than bronze"), Ovid was himself a hubristic father to his poems. He was content to die, but not to be forgotten, and proudly he hurls a parting challenge...
From its foundations, whose thickness once led to suspicions that they were planned as German gun bases, to the crest of its tower, whose weather vane is an outstanding replica of medieval European metal-work, the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture stands as a monument to one of the most checkered careers in Harvard archaeological history...
...small crew dug in at Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel to prepare the way for the flood of actors, floor men, engineers and assistant directors. Extra microphones, zoomar lenses, commercial props and TV slides were shipped down from Manhattan. One camera was even spotted atop the Washington monument for a bird's-eye view of the capital. Hostess Francis had to hop to rehearsal in Washington, back to New York for a Sunday performance on CBS's What's My Line?, back to Washington until Thursday, then to New York again for her ABC show, Soldier...
Witch-hunting had lost much of its glamour by the end of the eighteenth century, but the University faced its perennial housing problem, so the trustees decided to build another monument to the distinguished persecutor of Salem. In a curious reversal of roles, however, the General Court seemingly upheld civil liberties by refusing funds for the enterprise. Lacking any other resource, the crafty trustees held a series of lotteries and, in 1794, hit the jackpot, winning their own ten thousand dollar prize on a redeemed ticket. After this victory of the righteous, there was enought money to build Holworthy...