Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...festivals, a road for the Thanksgiving dash straight to Plymouth Rock. There is the original Mohawk Trail from Boston to the Berkshire Hills, brought up to date and dubbed Mass. Route 2. An alternate, Route 2A, links Revolutionary landmarks from Battle Green at Lexington to Concord's Minutemen monument. Route 20 shadows the Massachusetts Turnpike, navigates the Berkshires to the Tanglewood Music Festival at Lenox. Sturbridge Village, a few miles off the highway, is an early 19th century town beautifully re-created from steeple to hitching post, complete with craftsmen who duplicate antique pewter spoons and horse-drawn wagons...
Subtle, processional monumentality, raved admirers. Instant Stonehenge, snapped critics of the proposed Franklin D. Roosevelt monument, eight huge slabs in a cluster, engraved with passages from F.D.R.'s speeches. Washington's Fine Arts Commission, which took the anti-druidic view in 1962, has now finally approved the design after some changes were made, including the addition of an 18-foot-tall statue of the President. But the memorial still didn't pass the last roundup. At a Hyde Park meeting, Anna Roosevelt Halstead, 58, James, 56, Elliott, 53, John, 48, and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 49, unanimously...
...military career by joining the John Birch Society and resigning his commission. Savell went on to say that the general "led a charge of students against Federal marshals on the Ole Miss campus," was met with a repelling volley of tear gas, then climbed the base of a Confederate monument to dispense tactical advice and rally the scattered segregationists: "Don't let up now. This is a dangerous situation. You must be prepared for possible death. If you are not, go home...
Some 140 guests sat at small round tables as lanterns mounted on bamboo poles swayed in the soft breeze. In the background, across the south lawn, night lights played over the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial...
...SPIRE, by William Golding. In this medieval parable a saintly, obsessed canon orders a huge stone spire to be built atop his fragile cathedral, only to realize at last that his monument was not to God's glory...