Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year career as a master builder, Finland's Alvar Aalto won architectural award after award, and became perhaps his small nation's most famous figure-in effect, a national monument. When he died last week, at 78, Finland-and indeed the entire world of architecture-mourned his loss...
Last Saturday Cornell took its biggest step to date toward the championship, surprising Johns Hopkins, 15-7, in Baltimore, the Monument City. Hopkins is the team that put the Big Red in its place last year, winning, 16-9, before 12,000 people at Ithaca...
Arriving at dawn in Peking's vast Tien An Men Square, the protesters began placing wreaths in honor of the late Premier Chou En-lai at the Monument to the Martyrs of the Revolution. By 10 in the morning nearly 100,000 people had massed on the huge cobblestoned square, in front of the Gate of Heavenly Peace. Suddenly, a scuffle broke out between demonstrators and militiamen guarding the monument; a student from Tsinghua University was badly bloodied. Some in the crowd tried to storm the Great Hall of the People on the northwest corner of the square; rallies...
...addressed the churning mob through powerful loudspeakers, ordering them to disperse. Thousands of militiamen and soldiers marched into the square to restore order. In all, more than 1,000 people were arrested, and throughout the night 1,000 militiamen stood guard with fixed bayonets at the Martyrs' Monument to prevent another outbreak of violence...
...Square last Monday were celebrating Ch'ing Ming (meaning, pure and bright), China's traditional springtime festival for honoring the dead. For several days before the protest, tens of thousands of wreaths dedicated to Chou had been placed near the massive Martyrs' Monument in the middle of the square. Inexplicably, the wreaths were removed, apparently by militiamen, on the night preceding the protest. The crowd that arrived to honor Chou the next morning was obviously outraged by this gratuitous insult to the memory of the revered late Premier...