Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Target the Red Guards overlooked: their atomic-weapon development facili ties and the work of foreign devils like Newton, Einstein, Faraday, Mendeleyev, Leibnitz, Gauss, Huygens, Kirchhoff. There, indeed, is a monument to the West that any sane man would like to see at the bottom of Lake Baikal. If they do a really thorough job long enough, they will be walking to work and working at night by the light of blazing pine knots, even in the Celestial City...
...long as opera fans are willing to hear Carmen 100 times over and not tire of the same old rose clamped in the same old teeth, Bing's reasoning is hard to fault. At least he seems to think so, and the splashy new Met monument in Lincoln Center provides dramatic supporting evidence. The swipes from his critics, the tantrums of his singers, the sour notes from his musicians, all fail to stir even a hemidemisemiquaver of irritation in his aplomb. Among the scores of appropriate quotations from operas that he uses for punctuation, Rudolf Bing likes best...
Despondents in ever-increasing numbers have also turned to the Eiffel Tower as just about the most dramatic jumping-off place in France. With the tower's suicide rate approaching one a month, the Paris press last year campaigned for anti-suicide barriers around the "cursed monument." The Eiffel Tower Society, which oversees the structure, obliged by building a 51-ft.-high steel-wire fence around the edge of each of the tower's three platforms...
...most Westerners, the Berlin Wall is a brutal monument to Communism's need to imprison its subjects. Not to Walter Ulbricht. Last week East Germany's Red boss, after studiously ignoring the first four anniversaries of the ugly barrier that divides the city, openly celebrated its fifth birthday with a speech that made one wonder why he had not erected it years before. The Wall, orated Ulbricht, had 1) "saved the peace"; 2) proved the West "impotent"; 3) signified, by its unopposed erection, Allied recognition of the German status quo; 4) established "law and order" in East Germany...
...Westchester Hills Cemetery in Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth Man), the sisters chose the cemetery's biggest plot, which cost some $48,000 and lay opposite the grave cf Composer George Gershwin. They also planned a monument designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...