Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Surely a group of outstanding Americans, including Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Messrs. Milton Eisenhower, Sulzberger, Clay and Lewis, could find a better use for $25 million than a granite monument in Georgia [TIME, Aug. 17], which only a small percentage of the population will ever see. Wouldn't $25 million worth of medical research centers, rural libraries, history scholarships and the like prove a more fitting monument to American history than this eyesore at Pine Mountain...
...Christian A. Herter would recognize Artist Baker's excellent cover drawing of her great governor-husband; Solomon Willard would recognize, down to the last granite alock, the Bunker Hill Monument he designed ; and Mr. Bulfinch would praise Bakr's work on our Stafe Capitol; but no son of the Commonwealth could ever accept that dried-up thing Baker conjured up as a codfish! Ernest Hamlin Baker should change his fish market . . . His caudal fin, dorsal fins, maxillary, eye, missing barbel, etc., have turned our Sacred Cod into a hunk of gurry...
...outdoors in different colors." To cut costs, Harriman advocates the use of "more prefabricated units such as wall and ceiling panels, heating and ventilating units for classrooms that are completely self-contained. One of the chief causes of wasteful school building," says he, "occurs when a committee seeks a monument, replete with costly ornaments, rather than a truly modern building giving the children a better school to learn...
...History" came to Milwaukee-born Eric Gugler, an architect who has already built a dozen memorials, but says he has "never been able to find a history of the U.S. in chronological order and in visual form in any one place." The granite history he plans will cost a monumental $25 million, to be raised by public subscription. Gugler's blueprints for the monument, which will take ten years to build, call for a roofless, granite structure (247 feet wide, 418 feet long and 90 feet high), fitted inside with high relief sculptures of the major scenes...
...look at another monument to U.S. history: a statue to be placed in a memorial at Normandy's Omaha Beach, where some 9,300 U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen are buried in a military cemetery. The plaster model showed a 22-ft. figure (to be cast in bronze) of a semi-nude youth with rippling loincloth, his head and arms flung up and out, apparently on the point of taking off heavenward...