Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national capital, Jefferson and Lincoln have their memorials, Washington his towering obelisk, and plans are ready for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. But nearly 22 years after his death, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who held the presidency longer than anybody else, lacks any monument other than a small marker on Pennsylvania Avenue...
Three thousand miles to the east, long lines of moviegoers formed along the 50th Street side of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, prepared to stand in numbing patience as long as necessary to see his latest film, Follow Me, Boys. Perhaps later there will be a special monument, but now not even a meditative ceremony-just the show going on. Disney was dead, but not his vision of innocence, nor the dreams he made...
Basic Grammar. Today the sculpture they welded at the Borsig factory stands outside West Berlin's Free University, a soaring monument to the country's postwar technological strides. Similar commissions by the pair, along with a large exhibition currently traveling throughout West Germany, reveal a technical facility in touch with the times. Most of the acclaim goes to Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, 43, today ranked as Germany's leading sculptress. Her collaborator husband does not mind his relative oblivion. A former actor, he figures that she was already well on her way before they became a team...
Harvard's cooperation has important implications for the Library complex, and specifically for the Institute of Politics. Ever since the President's death, the Kennedy family has sought to create a "living memorial," not just a monument--thus the emphasis on the Institute, which is supposed to bring the worlds of scholarship and politics closer together. But the Institute, for all the publicity, cannot stand on its own; at best, its existence merely constitutes a good excuse to do such things as bring senior government administrators and politicians (called 'associates') into Cambridge, or create a debating union modeled after Oxford...
...Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center's most recent monument, opened just over a week ago and the New York Times was not amused on four counts (the opera, the architecture, the decorative art, the opening night in general). But none of these four things are important compared to the miracle on 65th Street: for the first time in a Lincoln Center auditorium, you can hear--every note that the world's highest-paid orchestra and most celebrated singers produce...