Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only convenience that the Renaissance structure now has is its location just across the lagoon from the cemetery. But since it, like everything else, is a monument, the new $11 million hospital will rise elsewhere: in the slummish San Giobbe sector, where the city slaughterhouse stands, and also the gateway to the city. The available land is nearly 7½ acres, but Corbu plans to extend the hospital for nearly five more acres across the water. Ironically, the man who first put modern buildings on stilts, or pilotis, as he calls them, now can put them to their most logical...
History has registered the Reconstruction as a monument to the vindictiveness of victory. Prostrate in defeat, the South played helpless host to its Northern plunderers, who not only despoiled the land but turned its government over to newly emancipated and ignorant slaves. Ever since, the South has rested part of its case against the Negroes on the fallout from this great Northern mistake. If only the conquerors had been understanding-so goes the argument-if only they had let Southern leaders work out their own salvation and cure, then those very recent chapters called Little Rock and Montgomery and Selma...
...afternoon rally in the outdoor Sylvan Theatre near the Washington Monument, Senator Ernest Gruening '07 (D-Alaska) told the demonstrators, We are standing on the brink of a world war of cataclysmic proportions...
...pickets began to march to the Washington Monument, where they sat on the grassy sun-drenched hillside nearby. They listened intently to a series of speakers on the pink podium which is nestled among the cherry trees that bloomed here last week...
When a man has been a state legislator at 22, a judge at 24, a multi-millionaire at 35 and mayor of a metropolis at 41, what else is there left for him at 53 but to build a suitable monument to himself? For Houston's Kubla Khan, Roy ("Giltfinger") Hofheinz, it obviously had to be a pleasure dome on the order of the Great Pyramid or the Colossus of Rhodes. To Builder Hofheinz, Houston's new, $31.6 million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When...