Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somber granite monument to South Africa's Boer pioneers near Pretoria, at Krugersdorp where the Boers defied the British and re-established their republic, and at other sites across the nation, white Afrikaners gathered to mark the Day of the Covenant, their Thanksgiving. It was on Dec. 16, 1838, that 470 Afrikaner farmers fought off a raid by 15,000 Zulu warriors, killing 3,000 of the attackers without losing any of their own number. On the eve of the battle, the Afrikaners vowed that if God granted them victory they would ever after commemorate...
Bacall's autobiographical voice is not so sultry, seductive or worldly. "I am in love with the Arch of Triumph-aside from the Lincoln Memorial, it is the most moving monument my heart has beat to ... We returned to Rome to prepare for our audience with the Pope. With my Jewish background, I was ill prepared ... Bogie, Ted Moore, the camera operator, the Captain and I went fishing on Lake Albert. I caught a five-pound Nile perch and threw it back, just loved catching...
...will never turn back!" Their destination was T'ien An Men Square, site of what had up to now been the most extraordinary political happening in China's recent past. In April 1976, throngs had congregated there to protest the removal of wreaths left at Martyrs' Monument in honor of the late Premier Monument in honor of the late Premier Chou Enlai, who had rehabilitated Teng from the disgrace he suffered during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. The gathering soon ignited into violence, and hundreds of demonstrators were beaten and jailed. In the wake...
...Council and debate in the full Faculty. It became A Cause: it was the future of Harvard, and also the past, a way of preparing the school to deal with the future, and also redeeming it to fulfill the goals of its hoary liberal-arts tradition. It was a monument to Henry Rosovsky, the man of the future, and a memorial to James B. Conant '14, the man of the past. Conant's death in mid-February hammered home the point; the death of the architect of General Education, the first Harvard president to become a major force in educational...
...event occurred on April 5, 1976, three months after the death of Premier Chou Enlai. The populace of Peking discovered that the flowers they had placed in Chou's honor at the Martyrs' Monument in T'ien An Men Square had been removed. In protest, tens of thousands of citizens marched on the square, but were repulsed by militiamen. The incident erupted into the most remarkable public demonstration in Peking in 30 years: before it ended, angry marchers had set fire to automobiles and a nearby building. Countless protesters were bloodied and hustled off to jail...