Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Large-scale civil disobedience and disruption. The most radical demonstrators assume control of the demonstrations on May 1. Mayday, a group whose most visible leader is Chicago Seven Defendant Rennie Davis, will open the final week with a "political Woodstock" rock festival on the grounds of the Washington Monument. The following day, a religious service will feature such disparate speakers as the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Jane Fonda. Then the tactics escalate: May 3 and 4, Mayday demonstrators will attempt to choke off traffic on the highways leading to the Pentagon, stall cars at key intersections and bridges leading into...
...future, that cities want strong leadership of the sort that Daley has given Chicago. This seems doubtful, if for no other reason than that blacks, who are rebelling against the machine, are also becoming a majority in Chicago and most other big cities. Still Boss stands as a monument to what can be done through a clever mix of self-interest, hate, fear, good timing, clever PR and strong leadership. If Boss is still relevant in the 1980's, it will be because the 1970's ignored its message...
...Mountains with the words: "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever." Red Wolf became a cobbler, country musician and farmer. In 1967, he returned to Big Hole and turned the first shovelful of dirt for the visitor center at Big Hole Battlefield National Monument...
...Associated Press and the New York Post received letters Monday signed by the "Weather Underground" claiming credit for the bombing. The letter said, in part, "We have attacked the Capitol because it is a . . . monument of U. S. domination over the planet...
...before he died in 1953 at the age of 83, John Marin was voted "the greatest living American painter" by a poll of critics and museum men. What the cranky, salt-bitten old Yankee thought of this honor is uncertain. Marin loathed the idea that art should become a monument, freezing its maker in the pose of a culture hero. "Art is not great," he once scribbled in that looping hand with which he covered innumerable scraps of paper with misspelled, queerly punctuated aphorisms. "Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses...