Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even in Alaska, where publicly owned park, monument and forest areas total more square miles than there are in Connecticut, Maryland and Delaware combined, oldtimers are beginning to feel crowded. However, there are more than a dozen aviation companies throughout the state that specialize in flying vacationers into remote areas for canoe, kayak, raft, backpacking, hiking or sheep-hunting trips. One such expedition was arranged by an Anchorage man and three friends from the Lower 48. After being dropped north of the Arctic Circle, they drifted on rubber rafts down the Noatak River to Kotzebue Sound in two weeks...
...ever the CIA recruited a candidate of uncompromising devotion, Agee seemed to be the man. When he joined "the Company" fresh out of Notre Dame in 1956, the graduate experienced an epiphany atop the Washington Monument. In a soliloquy straight out of a Loyalty Day pageant, Agee claims to have sworn, "I'll be a warrior against Communist subversive erosion of freedom and personal liberties around the world-a patriot dedicated to the preservation of my country and our way of life...
...great extent, the Korean economic success is a personal monument to the country's flinty President Park. Rapid growth did not really begin until about 1962, when Park's government instituted the first of the country's five-year development plans and began to receive huge amounts of foreign investment capital, the majority from Japan. Until then, Korea had stagnated under the ineffectual, if autocratic rule of aging President Syngman Rhee. Overthrown in 1960 by spontaneous, nationwide student demonstrations, Rhee was replaced for a brief period by a truly democratic regime led by President...
...Washington, D.C., hospital room, Steven Laine also refused to be bitter. An aide to Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, Laine had been walking to his office through a crowd of 125,000 gathered on the grounds by the Washington Monument for a rock festival celebrating-inappropriately, as it turned out-"Human Kindness Day." Wandering gangs of black teen-agers circulated through the crowd beating up whites at random, robbing whites and some blacks as well. One of the muggers attacked Laine, stabbing him in the right eye, which he subsequently lost...
...easily stray to the center of the sunken atrium, half expecting to see a sarcophagus. Roche-Dinkeloo's design is elegant, icy and inflated. Lehman agreed that the new wing should have almost the same proportions as the Met's Great Hall - thus ensuring a large abstract monument to himself - but he also wanted to commemorate his way of life with the period rooms. Unfortunately, these seven gloomily sumptuous chambers are of little historical interest (they were done in 1959 by a Paris decorator, in a plum-cake version of stockbroker's plush). Lehman's paintings...