Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather-beaten monument in Stanleyville's Lumumba Square is wreathed in a spray of faded plastic flowers and surrounded by white bathroom tiles. It consists of a crude glass-encased portrait showing a goateed man, whose left hand rests on a multicolored globe. A rusty sign, rising from a scraggly bed of petunias, proclaims: "Here is the monument of the Liberator of the Congo, Premier Patrice Emery Lumumba, Hero of Independence and of Unity, assassinated 18 January 1961 in Katanga...
...monument last week strode the latest Liberator of the Congo, Premier Moise Tshombe, onetime leader of secessionist Katanga and the man whom most Congolese hold responsible for Lumumba's murder. Standing poker-faced in a tepid drizzle, Tshombe solemnly deposited a wreath at the foot of the portrait, bowed his head in silence. Later he delivered a speech that drew wild applause from at least 5,000 of Lumumba's former followers. "You have suffered too much from strings pulled abroad. The Congolese will not be valets of colonialists and imperialists...
...WASHINGTON, D.c. Begun three years ago, the Shakespeare Summer Festival is staged on the sloping lawns that lead up to the Washington Monument, and is in itself something of a monument to the determination of a housewife named Ellie Chamberlain Galidas, whose husband is a General Electric systems analyst. She decided that the capital should have free, outdoor, summer Shakespeare, and she brought it off. Her actors are partly Equity and partly amateur, plus 20 ballerinas from the Washington School of the Ballet. They do one play a season, and this summer's production of A Midsummer Night...
SHAKESPEARE SUMMER FESTIVAL (Washington, D.C.): Midsummer Night's Dream at the foot of the Washington Monument (free...
...link downtown with the major expressways leading out of the city. The long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch 630 ft. high, designed by the late Eero Saarinen as a monument to St. Louis as Gateway to the West. A seven-block pedestrian mall shaded by trees and flanked by lawns is abuilding. Ground has been broken for a 1,100-car parking garage, first step in construction of a downtown sports stadium, designed by Edward Stone, that will seat...