Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eccentric Orbit. The New York shows include a total of 43 bronzes at the Marlborough Gallery and 17 stone carvings at M. Knoedler & Co., all done since 1961. Even the smallest pieces have authority. Helmet Head is only 18| in. high; yet it has the majesty of a public monument. "You can see in it the idea of protecting, of mother and child, I suppose," says Moore, "but it doesn't want you to know all about it. One could make a whole career out of this one form...
After a day of watching three-piece suited Harvard students talk to similarly-suited Senators, it is a relief ?? lie in the grass at night and look up at the Washington Monument. You can feel the dead tension of moderate politics dissolve into the night...
...meetings here tonight drew thousands of people. In the Sylvan Theatre near the Washington Monument, a crowd of about 6000 heard Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman and Black Panther Doug Miranda...
...site for Saturday's demonstration is still in dispute. New Mobe representatives, who expect 30,000 war protesters, have demanded access to Lafayette Park, directly in front of the White House. But government authorities have insisted upon cordoning off the park area and have offered instead the Washington Monument grounds, three blocks in back of the White House...
...board is still in business, insist its members. It can, to be sure, still pin a Communist label on any group, but it cannot name individual members. In fact, the board has become a monument to futility-and to the courts' determination to defend the rights of all individuals, even those who are unpopular...