Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence were to occur, it would probably have been set off by a scruffy-looking bunch of about 50 white men who stood across 15th Street from the Monument grounds, staring balefully at the assembling civil rights marchers. These were members of the nitwit American Nazi Party, led by George Lincoln Rockwell. Prohibited by cops from crossing over to the Monument grounds, Rockwell could only rage helplessly: "I can't stand niggers. I can't stand to hear We Shall Overcome." Even before the march started, he led his ridiculous group away from the vicinity in an agony...
...march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, a distance of about eight-tenths of a mile, had been scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m. But at least 20 minutes before then, a group of Negroes started strolling away from the Monument grounds on the way to the Memorial. Hundreds, then thousands and tens of thousands, followed. Constitution and Independence Avenues were transformed into oceans of bobbing placards. Some marchers wept as they walked; the faces of many more gleamed with happiness. There were no brass bands. There was little shouting or singing. Instead, for over an hour...
Another man might look upon Beaverbrook Newspapers, Ltd. as a monument to himself: a press empire second in size only to Cecil King's mammoth Daily Mirror newspapers (9,700,000 to 16.7 million) - and second to none, among the country's popular press, in professional competence. But to the Beaver, his papers are simply an extension of himself, a setting for his unslaked passions, fighting tools, the instruments of his will...
...nation was still in its raw infancy, when Washington, D.C., was a muddy village with a few thousand inhabitants, the White House has, through the changing decades, served its practical functions as residence and office for the President. What was neglected was the ideal: the White House as a monument, as a symbol of the nation's continuity under all administrations...
Family Squabble. Like Chandigarh, Brasilia, hundreds of miles from nowhere, is being built from scratch. As the new capital of a proud nation, it also bears the overtones of a monument. Brasilia is in fact an expensive showpiece with more ingenuity than humanity; crossroads?hence traffic lights ?have been eliminated, but there are not enough parking spaces near government buildings. Housing for officials smacks of the ghetto. If you are in the Air Ministry, you not only work together all day, but you also live in the same compound with your colleagues at night...