Word: monumental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, De Gaulle and Ike clattered up to Gettysburg in an Army helicopter for a brief visit to the Eisenhower farm and a trip to the adjoining national monument that is a shrine to professional soldiers the world over: the Gettysburg battlefield. From Gettysburg they flew to Camp David for further talk. Just how much progress was made toward ironing out what minor differences still divide the U.S. and France will probably not come clear until President de Gaulle himself plays host to the summit session in Paris...
...panoramic text, which sometimes lapses into newscaster's jargon ("All Russia was in anarchy"), Author Duncan tries to capture more than 800 years, but his pictures tell a more revealing story-ropes of pearls, rather like fetters; Empress Anna's cathedral bell, a 200-ton monument to Old Russia, damaged by fire in 1737 and never hung; the golden crowns gorged with diamonds-all these are works of art. Yet this is art not as communication but as excommunication, a barrier defining the unbridgeable distance between the rulers' unlimited power and the cowed abasement of the poor...
...cried: "Come over into Macedonia and help us!" Paul carried the Gospel across the Aegean, through Macedonia and down to Athens, where in the agora below the Acropolis he preached his most famous sermon, proclaiming "the unknown God" to whom the Athenians had erected a monument. Almost as well known is Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, when they knelt weeping on the shore after he had told them, "You . . . will see my face no more...
...those who stood the gaff, perhaps the most rewarding appraisal came on the editorial page under the byline of a Washington monument: Arthur Krock. With tongue tucked tightly in cheek, Krock made it plain that he, like an old friend and news source named Harry Truman, thinks presidential primaries are so much eyewash...
...altruism" with his duty-setting "categorical imperatives." It was he who bred the mental worm that makes modern men "equate self-interest with evil," that makes businessmen afraid to admit they seek profits (i.e., happiness), that leaves the victims of dictatorship feeling "selfish" if they resist. "The ulti mate monument to Kant and the whole altruist morality is Soviet Russia...