Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rice piled up at the village mill for lack of transport. Viet Cong cadres took over the schools, charged taxes-500 piasters on each of Phumy's thatch-roofed houses, plus eleven pounds of rice from each family per month. They also erected a 15-ft.-high concrete monument to Communism at the village gate...
...like Gold Dust twins. "We are of the same generation," the 38-year-old Zeffirelli would say, "and we see things in the same light." That meant seeing Falstaff, quite uniquely, as a tragedy-an expression of absurdity, an old man's revenge. "This is Verdi's monument to the ungenerosity of people," said Zeffirelli of Verdi's last opera and his only comedy.* "It really isn't funny...
NATHANAEL NEUJEAN-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. Thirty-three small pieces in rough bronze for a Belgian sculptor's first U.S. showing. Much of his work commemorates the victims of the Nazi pogroms and stands as a monument to their courage. He endows his figures with dignity in despair, casts them in small lonely groups bound together both by human oppression and the hidden force of their own humanity. Through March...
Worst May Be Best. God may not always appear to take notice; "every war, every famine or plague, almost every deathbed, is the monument to a petition that was not granted." This, Lewis suggests, is inevitable: "In our ignorance we ask what is not good for us or for others, or not even intrinsically possible." Yet God's silence does not necessarily contradict Jesus' injunction: "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall receive them" (Mark 11: 24). For, the author maintains, "such promises about prayer with faith refer...
...considered, we are confident that the religious leaders of our country will find none of these pitfalls insurmountable. No scheme of any grandeur is devoid of kinks which must be worked out by sober, intelligent minds. Jehova's monument will demonstrate that the true image of America, reflected in its capital, is that of, in the words of our President, "a good and God-fearing people...