Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transition from a church for the affluent to a mission for the poorest. Founded in 1871, it was once the most fashionable parish in town. The families who lived on "the Heights" were well-to-do, and the house of worship they built at 120 Summit Avenue was a monument to their generosity. The stained-glass windows were by Tiffany; the altar, pulpit and lectern were of the best Carrara marble...
...people feel "no bitterness" toward the U.S., shrugs: "If Japan had had the same type of weapon, it would have used it." Today the main difference between the two cities is that Hiroshima has remained a stark symbol of man's inhumanity to man; Nagasaki is a monument to forgiveness...
...Tamara joined John and Mrs. Glenn for a frantic tour of the capital. They were chivied from conference to conference by mobs of reporters, photographers and keening teenagers. ("My God," cried one photographer, "it was Sinatra all over again!") The Glenns showed the visitors the standard sights (Smithsonian, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, etc.) and took the Titovs to the White House for a brief, formal call on President Kennedy...
...lifting two-ton blocks of Indiana limestone up into the reaches of the cathedral's turreted Gloria in Excelsis tower. When completed two years from now, the 300-ft. tower will soar over Washington, surpassing in height (because of its hilltop location) the 555-ft. Washington National Monument...
...large part, Soviet Russia is a monument to Karl Marx. It was Marx's Communist Manifesto, written with Frederick Engels in 1848, that became the blueprint for the Russian Revolution of 1917, and Marxist doctrine still guides Russia today. From Lenin to Khrushchev, Russia's Communist leaders have placed the full-bearded German Jew high on the honor roll of their country's heroes. But no man is less deserving of that dubious distinction-an irony of history recalled this week with publication of a slender book, Marx vs. Russia (Frederick Ungar Publishing...