Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...17th century Baroque art. By following his own nose and ignoring the sniffs of rival connoisseurs, he was able to stuff his museum with king-size treasures at bargain prices. He bequeathed it to the state of Florida when he died in 1936, and the collection remains a monument to his sometimes shaky but always lordly taste...
Veronese's Flight into Egypt is a fitting capstone to the monument. Nearly 8 ft. high, the painting reflects the opulent grandeur of 16th century Venice rather than the hardship of the Holy Family's flight. The Inquisition once accused Veronese of making his religious pictures too worldly and "modern." "We painters," he replied, "take, the same liberties as poets and madmen...
Almost the entire street level of the new building, Lever House, is given over to a parklike complex of garden and patio, open to the air and open to the casual stroller, while the building itself, a starkly modern, $6,000,000, 24-story, glass-encased monument to the soap industry, rises delicately overhead on stainless steel columns. The net effect is one of jet-propelled urgency held thankfully and restfully...
...retrospect, the old Common is one of the best examples of the cyclical theory of history. It is unfortunate however that destiny has never allowed the Common to become more than a dust-bowl. One writer of local history has suggested that the next monument be "not of marble or bronze but good, stubborn grass seed...
FORT WORTH, Texas, known both affectionately and derisively as "Cowtown," has a civic monument which, unlike San Antonio's Alamo, Houston's Shamrock and Dallas' Cotton Bowl, can walk & talk at incredible speed. That this monument is made of perishable material causes Fort Worth no immediate concern: Amon Giles Carter, tall, straight-backed and hefty, in his 73rd year shows no signs of erosion. He walks as fast as ever and talks even faster...