Word: monumental
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...Third Army on the east bank. On a broad sandy plain, a curious collection had been assembled. To the rear, in a 100-yard semicircle, were arranged captured Israeli tanks, guns, missiles, shells and even the wreckage of a Phantom jet. In the center of the semicircle a white monument had been erected honoring the men who died during the Israeli siege of the army. In between booty and monument, officers and men representing all units of the Third Army were drawn...
...seven surviving sons of a Monmouthshire miner who died of lung disease, "Nye" Bevan, even in his plummy days as a Buckinghamshire squire and playboy of the West End world, never forgot or forgave the hardscrabble existence eked out by the working folk of his native valleys. His principal monument is Britain's National Health Service, still the model of womb-to-tomb medical care...
...14th edition (first published in 1929), he supported his editors' decision to produce a totally new encyclopaedia and agreed to finance the venture. Benton was not on hand for the unveiling; he died last March, two weeks before his 73rd birthday. But in Britannica 3, he has a monument as impressive as any man could want...
...same Manhattan block where she grew up), middle class, Jewish. Erica Jong has written a medley of a book, something of a cross between a True Confessions of a Feminist--How Tough it Is and a Portnoy's Complaint. The book is probably meant to be the new monument to the movement. It's got everything: woman as Oedipus, masochist, narcissist, feminist; woman as hostage of her fears, her fantasies, her false definitions; woman as siren seductress and sexually screwed up; woman as dependent and woman as rebel...
...record world seemed to be "drinking that fatal glass of beer" that many movie studios had taken-a switch in emphasis from artistic control to mere entrepreneurism. Like other large record companies, Columbia under Davis had moved more and more into the distributorship of smaller labels (Stax, Philadelphia International, Monument), more and more into high bidding for established stars (Neil Diamond and Laura Nyro for multimillion dollar deals) and less into its own experimentation and development of talent...