Word: monumental
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...spinning wheel of fortune. Ever since, the rubble of old realms has teased and provoked imaginations. In the 18th century, a visit to Rome inspired Gibbon to write an enduring history of imperial decline. Romantic poets found the gloom and doom of antiquity irresistible. Envisioning an ancient toppled monument in a barren desert, Shelley conceived an epitaph that was both ironic and admonitory: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" In a softer temper, Poe allowed the face of a beautiful woman to transport him back in time "To the glory that...
...militantly antiunion meat packer with a woeful safety record, should build a plant in Manchester, Iowa. The controversy might seem arcane to outsiders, but IBP symbolizes antiunion trends that arouse deep feelings among Iowa workers. Babbitt won statewide headlines by labeling IBP a "corporate outlaw" and a "monument to everything shabby . . . in the American economy." It was not empty rhetoric, since Babbitt artfully used IBP as a bridge to dramatize his own detailed proposals for employee participation and "workplace democracy." Gephardt has long wooed Iowa union members and farmers with two pieces of special-interest legislation: a protectionist trade bill...
Even earlier, though, the war touched young Mikhail. In Privolnoye, as in thousands of other villages and towns in the U.S.S.R., there is an eternal flame and a monument to those who lost their lives in what Soviets call the Great Patriotic War. The name Gorbachev appears on the memorial seven times, though it is not certain which of his relatives are meant. His father Sergei was conscripted and fought at the front for four years, during which "Misha" (the common Russian nickname for Mikhail) must have spent much time alone with his mother Maria Panteleyevna Gorbachev. In a recent...
...ghosts come out anyway; and it is Kiefer's project to lay them by showing their relations to the real cultural history of Germany, bitterly polluted by Nazi appropriation. When Kiefer paints a Nazi monument, such as the Mosaic Room in Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin, designed by Speer, he also evokes by implication the noble tradition of German neoclassicism that Speer froze and vulgarized. His charred, plowed landscapes, their heavy paint mixed with straw, are real agricultural terrain, but they are also frontier, no- man's land, graveyard and the biblical desert of Exodus...
Students are raising $500,000 to build a monument near the lot. They are also urging the university president to release the information brochures he is withholding from the information...