Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mansion shone bright in a new coat of paint (applied expressly for the Inauguration). It was washed by intense incandescence, the Washington Monument rising behind the White House with equal brilliance and a three-quarter moon hanging above the whole scene...
WHEN I STOPPED and asked what can I do to combat the money and power that works to destroy the architecturally rendered meaning of a place? How can I fight those who move London Bridge to Arizona, or build a monument to President Pusey in Harvard Yard? And the National Trust doesn't answer, really. They are less enterprising in confronting the social issues than in analyzing the cultural deficiency, they are better at awakening the dormant sensibility of the man-on-the-street than they are at challenging the very alert interests of the developer and businessman...
HACKENSACK, N.J.--From a distance, it could just be another of the monstrous structures--oil drums, refineries, and the like--that populate the North Jersey neighborhood. Upon closer inspection, however, it turns out to be about the most impressive monument to the multi-million dollar phenomenon known as professional football ever to be constructed on Route 3 in Hackensack...
...products of this incumbent mentality influence the admixture of guts and guff that make up Al's political style. First, that he is practically a monument in his community lends a security to his ability to continue living a local political life. If someone is pretty certain he can be reelected, he can say things that verge on the outrageous or the absurd, so long as the man himself is not absurd. Second, incumbents find formulas that work for them, and they will stick by them as long as they carry some political benefit. One of the formulas...
...released, and he evidently found it sufficiently flattering to allow it and Schroeder out of Uganda. Apparently we the public are supposed to perceive this fact as bitterly ironic, as though it should be extraordinarily surprising that the man who announced his intention to build a national monument to Hitler should have so poor a sense of public relations...