Word: monumentality
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...holiday season? Then get your skates on. Following its successful debut last year, the ice-skating rink at the Eiffel Tower is back?and it's not just a pretty divertissement for the tourists. Last year's rink was widely praised for giving Parisians a reason to revisit a monument normally swarming with foreign holidaymakers, so expect to find plenty of locals gliding on the ice beside...
...holiday season? Then get your skates on. Following its successful debut last year, the ice-skating rink at the Eiffel Tower is back - and it's not just a pretty divertissement for the tourists. Last year's rink was widely praised for giving Parisians a reason to revisit a monument normally swarming with foreign holidaymakers, so expect to find plenty of locals gliding on the ice beside you. Located on the tower's first-floor platform, 57-m above the city, this year's rink is slightly larger than last year's and offers the same gorgeous views...
...individual institutions, both Harvard and the military have had venerable traditions of acting in the nation’s service. But their best moments have been when they stood together: Memorial Church is our monument to those students that served and died in World War I. The memory of these brave soldiers is poorly served by the bitterness between the two institutions today. Harvard should not challenge the military’s existence—even symbolically—by refusing it access to soldiers. The military should not risk Harvard’s scientific contributions by toying with...
...Ching ’06. Heineken heir Alexander A.C. De Carvalho ’08. Erica S. Birmingham ’06 (see page 18). This was Harvard’s wonder class, our future fashionistas, tastemakers-to-be. Their week beats our year, and Scene is a monument in their honor...
...high school, we were cultured enough for the Met; and senior year, mature enough for the Holocaust Museum in New York. For a long time, New York City was just the end-point of many long school bus rides. I assumed every building was a museum or a monument, forgetting that eight million New Yorkers had to live somewhere. New Haven was the center of my universe, and New York was two hours off my radar...