Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little (5 ft. 5½ in., 134 Ibs.) feather of a man, has never worried about financial rewards. The Russian-born son of a harness maker, he started out as a middling good classical sculptor, tired of it in 1920 just after he won the sculpture competition for a monument in front of Grant's Tomb. "I felt it belonged to a world of the past," he says. "It had been done better than I could do it, and to continue would be a false thing." Baizerman rejected the commission, began experimenting with lithe, modern figures in bronze...
Every Secretary of Agriculture would like to leave, as a monument to his administration, a long-range farm program. But whenever farm groups face a price decline or crop failure, they set up such a political yowl the secretary must turn from his planning and play the role of fireman. Ezra Benson has discovered this early. Fanned by a gradual price decline, a sudden fear is sweeping the prairies, causing new agricultural groups to demand shelter from the free market...
...fruits of Davidson's enthusiasm went on view in Manhattan. Standouts were his bust of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, looking like a resolute sailor in a storm, and a bronze head of Israel's President Chaim Weizmann. Shortly after the creation of that small but eloquent monument to the eternity of life, both Weizmann and Davidson himself died...
Reporter Fontaine has not always been welcome. He was able to talk to Communist workers at the Renault plant outside Paris only by pretending to be a Swedish journalist. During the Communist Peoples Congress for Peace in Vienna, he had to set up shop next to a Russian tank monument before the suspicious delegates would let themselves be interviewed. But in all his wanderings, he ran into censorship only once: SHAPE public relations officers refused to let him interview allied soldiers on the difference between European and U.S. army pay. Says Fontaine: "They told me that was dynamite...
...past, it had passed into private hands but had hung on to become one of the oldest elementary schools in the U.S. Still structurally sound, the academy, where Robert E. Lee studied before going on to West Point, may be preserved by sentimental Alexandrians as a historic monument...