Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Kennedy's, however, have dedicated their efforts to building a monument to President Kennedy. Harvard's specific needs and desires are not always included in their plans, say Harvard observers...
...Franco Bahamonde, Caudillo, Jefe del Estado, Prime Minister, Generalissimo of the Armed Forces, Regent of the Kingdom, and President of the Falange. Franco inaugurated a year of memorial celebrations--"Twenty-Five Years of Peace"--earlier this month with a service at the Holy Cross Basilica, a multi-million dollar monument to the war dead. The service will be followed by a year-long continuum of fairs, parades, dances, and patriotic exhibitions. "As tragic as were the dead," commented the government's Director-General of Information at the ceremony, "at least today we have unity...
...called the notion of putting up a memorial to God a "semantic blunder" because it "speaks of God in the past tense." Christianity Today, a conservative Protestant biweekly, said that while it would welcome "a recognition of the historical Christian roots of the nation," the idea of a monument to a generalized God should be dropped...
...drawn water from filthy canals). Inhabitants flocked back to the village in droves, and within a week the streets swarmed with mobs of children, eagerly accepting Life Savers from U.S. advisers and schoolbooks distributed by the province chief. With the Khanh takeover, things brightened further; the Viet Cong monument has been repainted as a government monument, and walls have been plastered with propaganda slogans, including a poem: "I am a girl of the countryside. If you follow the Viet Cong, I will never love...