Word: monumentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CRIMSON SPLASHES: The new Columbia pool stands as a monument to the ineptitude of the architects and construction firms that plan and build aquatic facilities. The Lions' home was built without any ventilation system whatsoever, creating a sauna atmosphere which, combined with the excess chlorine in the pool, made it very difficult for the swimmers to breathe...
There were several soldiers; Philips and O'Shea could not tell from their uniforms whether they were Vietnamese or from Heng Samrin's Cambodian units. They showed their visitors the Independence Monument and seemed eager for them to have a look at Sihanouk's palace. Later some of the plane's crew approached a group of Cambodian soldiers. "How are things compared with a year ago?" one was asked...
...plain north of Parma stands a shining monument to the Harvard Business School. The largest pasta factory in Italy, it now produces more than a fifth of all the spaghetti eaten here. It is American owned and run according to all the newest methods. All steel and glass, humming machinery, it is a symbol of the new Italy, the post-war industrial revolution that has transformed a rural agricultural-based economy into a modern industrial state. Northern Italians have watched that transformation: the grandparents belong to a rural world, a preindustrial way of life that had continued almost unchanged...
...skeletons of Borgias. (The Catholic immigrants, flocking together in a consciousness of their own differences, and with some desire to preserve them, seemed to confirm nativist fears.) When Pope Pius IX in the 1840s followed the example of European monarchs and sent a block of marble for the Washington Monument, a mob threw it into the Potomac. Through the 1850s, the violently antipapist Know-Nothing Party flourished, to be supplanted in succeeding generations by the Ku Klux Klan, which went after Catholics as well as Jews and blacks...
Gingerich said, however, at least one claim about Stonehenge is justified: 'the whole monument is lined up in the direction of the sun during the summer solstice." He added that Stonehenge's designers probably aligned the stones purposely to record the northernmost path...