Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brought forward, and the crowd would be asked whether the accused was innocent or guilty. There was seldom any doubt about the verdict. In the square near Kindu's main shopping district, hundreds of Congolese were burned to death with gasoline in front of the local Lumumba monument. Following Kindu's recapture fortnight ago, government forces blew up the monument; the adjoining pavement was still cracked and blackened from the rebel burnings...
Warnecke, 45, was a logical choice to design the site. Kennedy idolized his heroics as a Stanford University football hero and with his art adviser Wil liam Walton, picked him to renovate Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square. "This may be the only monument we leave," said Kennedy. His widow chose Warnecke to leave one more...
...design is more an appreciation of a natural site than a monument of masonry. Visitors who will go there cannot avoid pondering the powerful poetry of the vista toward the capital. It was one of Kennedy's favorites. Some time before his death, he and a friend stood where he now is buried. Remarked the late President: "I could stay here forever." That came true too suddenly, but his observation has only enhanced his resting place...
...admiral bellows one night in a manic epiphany. "The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor! We'll build him a monument -the Tomb of the Unknown Sailor." Telegrams crackle, Joint Chiefs harrumph, orders arrive, engines clamor, machine guns cachinnate, and sure enough, the first dead man on Omaha Beach turns out to be-Garner. Next day every daily in the U.S. front-pages his picture, but a week later the corpse turns up alive. "Omigawd!" gasps the officer (James Coburn) in charge of public relations. "Instead of a dead hero...
BRITTEN: STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (London). Written to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of Purcell, this quartet is an architectural tour de force, requiring four lone instruments to construct a stately musical monument. Britain's impressive Amadeus Quartet does the job with distinction...