Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century, a 26-year-old song tinkerer in Vienna wrote a gigantic cantata that profoundly impressed an already influential German composer, Richard Strauss. To Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder heralded a new flowering of post-Wagnerian romanticism. But the work was, in fact, only a massive monument to a musical tradition about to decay. After it, Schoenberg was to begin the experiments with atonalism that eventually determined the direction of 20th century music. Once popular in Germany, Gurrelieder had its U.S. premiere under Leopold Stokowski in 1932, has rarely been performed since. Last week at Carnegie Hall, still...
...they might be offensive in the eyes of prospective football players, I was curious to see how certain this campus is that athletes belong above the law and radicals below it. I, for one, am certain simply that the educational level represented in this act must stand as a monument to the faculty of Harvard University, and that the lack of protection for the pickets speaks as highly for the administration. Daniel Eigerman...
Both the talk and the war monument were premature. The Communist-led rebels still held most of north central Laos, and the road into their lair was studded with land mines, freshly imported from Red China. Though Boun Oum's generals predicted all-out victory "within a week," most foreign observers on the scene predicted a negotiated truce. Late last week King Savang Vatthana, an easygoing monarch who prefers to remain above politics, reluctantly left his palm-fringed home town of Luangprabang, flew to Vientiane to convene his council of ministers. Purpose: to see if he could devise some...
...team from the Manhattan architectural firm of Pedersen & Tilney. Hoberman rejected the idea of any kind of statue, because "there is so much photographic material on F.D.R." Nor did he want another anachronism such as a modified Greek temple (the Lincoln Memorial) or an Egyptian obelisk (the Washington Monument). Instead, he proposed perpendicular tablets carrying quotations from Roosevelt. Commented Jury Chairman Pietro Belluschi: "I hate to bring up Moses and his tablets, but this is a sort of version of them...
Filling the Gap. The strategic targeting plan stands as the newest monument to a reserved and dedicated man who, combining outer velvet with inner iron, has proved to be one of the ablest and most valuable officials in the Eisenhower Administration. In the five-sided Penta gon, where most questions have more than five conflicting sides, just about everybody agrees that Tom Gates has been the most successful Defense Secretary since the late James Forrestal (1947-49). Georgia's crusty Congressman Carl Vinson. chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a frequent Pentagon critic, flatly calls Gates...