Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Martin (316-397), the great Bishop of Tours whose cult had spread from France to Spain. Though the apse was nothing but a shell exposed to the weather and was not even pictured in a single Spanish book on architecture, the government maintained that it was a national monument. That meant: no sale...
From the far-flung corners of the Moslem world, pilgrims last week converged on Mecca, city of the Prophet's birth, where they would make the ritual seven circuits around the shrouded monument and enter to kiss the Black Stone handed down by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham. If they took time to notice, they might have detected a change in the air. Along the six-lane highway that leads inland to Mecca from the Red Sea port of Jiddah, pilgrims were ministered to by mobile hospitals, reservoirs of ice water, and troops of Moslem Boy Scouts...
...audacity to escape from the drugging minutiae of documentary sweepings into the exhilarating reaches of man's whole past? Toynbee lacerates himself too much, and the total effect is damaging. But not annihilating. For after all, A Study of History exists, and it is Toynbee's monument. In Reconsiderations he has chipped it more severely than have all his critics put together, but even this unprecedented exercise in self-criticism leaves it in no danger of toppling...
...kept appearing on his canvases with a cub-istically dislocated face. Even more unflattering was his muttonheaded portrait of Painter Francoise Gilot. Though Picasso and Francoise had two children, she finally left him in a huff. "I am not living with a man," she complained, "but with a monument." Picasso was all of 71 when the blow fell, but he soon found consolation with young Jacqueline. If the Paris-Presse portrait is any indication, this marriage may turn out to be the happiest...
...tortured, that Dolci writes of in his angry indictments of the island's society. For St. Francis, these were the beloved of God, chosen by him to atone for the greed and spiritual bankruptcy of their fellows. But for Dolci, the outcasts of Sicily are simply a monument to men's obliviousness of one another...