Word: monumentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White-gloved guards goose-stepped up to the monument commemorating their nation's most venerated martyr. Then Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martínez laid a single wreath on the tomb of Revolutionary Hero Carlos Fonseca Amador. Two dozen grammar school students, clad in denim shifts or designer jeans, shook their fists and cried, "The Yanquis will die!" before breaking into bashful giggles as adults smiled their approval. Finally, a high school marching band tramped loudly up to the monument, throwing a gaggle of preschoolers into disarray. As some toddlers cringed...
Lack of communication in the '60s caused some horrifying things to happen. I hope that memories of that decade and the angry voices heard last week will make the administration realize what is happening now. Harvard has been described as "America's greatest monument to democracy." I have yet to see an effective democratic government in action. It is indeed time for change. Vijaya Ramachandran
Beginning next spring, the National Park Service will lift visitors up through the atrium in a glass-walled elevator so they can enjoy panoramic views from the top of the tower, the second highest pinnacle in the area after the Washington Monument. Tourists have other amenities to sample in the Pavilion. After two years of negotiations, the Government granted a 55-year lease to the Evans Development Co., which put up an additional $10 million to make space suitable for shops...
...march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, a distance of about eight-tenths of a mile, had been scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m. But at least 20 minutes before then, a group of Negroes started strolling away from the Monument grounds on the way to the Memorial. Hundreds, then thousands and tens of thousands, followed. Constitution and Independence Avenues were transformed into oceans of bobbing placards. Some marchers wept as they walked; the faces of many more gleamed with happiness. There were no brass bands. There was little shouting or singing. Instead, for over an hour...
...return the temple to mint condition. As he put it, "Acts of vandalism and the decline of the original architectural system all form part of the history of the building. We are obliged to accept that the perfect lines and surfaces have been lost forever and that the monument has a new character-that of a ruin...