Word: monumentality
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...from Sept. 11. It wasn't a random tragedy for which grief is a slow-acting salve. It was a massacre--a premeditated murder of civilians by men possessed by a theocratic ideology. It was an invasion--the violation of sovereign American soil, the erasure of a visible monument to American success and energy and civilization. It was a crime--the filling of the air of a great and free city with the irradiated dust of innocent human lives. It was a statement--that radical Islam intends to attack and destroy the very principles of the Enlightenment that underpin...
...reports were undertaken while Chirac's socialist opponents were in power. Earlier this month, the President sacked the head of France's domestic intelligence service following leaked allegations that his RPR party benefited from an alleged ransom paid to free French hostages in Lebanon in 1988. ESTONIA SS Monument Authorities in the city of Parnu removed a monument honoring Estonians who fought alongside the Nazis in World War II. The monument showed a man in an Estonian SS uniform and bore a dedication to servicemen in what it called their efforts to liberate the homeland. The removal took place after...
...TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE: "Charles and Me," a cheesy new book by Pat Shannon (Four Courts; 5/15) is a monument to indiscretion. The book chronicles Shannon's "very private and intimate relationship of 30 years" with the late, married CBS news correspondent Charles Kuralt. Who asked...
...would not be the first time that a monument to war dead were composed of words. The most beautiful memorial ever imagined was probably the Gettysburg Address, whose power partly derived from a feeling of proximity to those killed in the war from which Memorial Day originated. This conscious desire to be closer to the dead started showing up in more concrete structures with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, which invites us to run our fingertips over the names of our countrymen, in effect to touch the dead. The architect, Maya Lin, said that the wall gives off reflections...
...more impressive modern edifices of its kind in the world. Some wag who had his values straight proposed posting a sign outside the entrance when the building opened that read: "This is not the library. The library is inside." The library is always inside. It may be the only monument we have to the things that can enlighten and advance us, and thus assuage at least some of the sorrow for which there are no words...