Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bippies explained the plagues yesterday at a press conference beneath the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston. Martin L. Pearlmutter '68, Boston Field Mouse of the Youth International Party, said, "We have invoked eight plagues, one for each defendant, that will lay low the so-called, alleged Federal government. We demand that the Nixon junta capitulate immediately and that we be granted immortality...
...march failed. The one million people who smilingly crushed each other on the Washington Monument mall were called 250,000 frolicking college kids on the front page of American newspapers. Football devotee Richard Nixon watched a great telecast in the middle of a half-mile circle of bumper-to-bumper buses and shoulder-to-shoulder D. C. cops. After the 250,000 people and 750.000 hallucinations in human form went home, Nixon turned off his television set and offered the country two more Middle American goodies. "Vietnamization." the process whereby those smart, tough G. I.'s teach those sweet, brown...
...expected to see the usual massculture view of the future world: the glory of the future American superstate-usually a "World Government" democratically ruled by Americans-in which supercars zoom over mega-highways toward ultracities. But on page 21 found myself staring at the Destruction of the Washington Monument by the Mongols...
...Federal Government; the President's Science Advisory Committee is an example. Finally, there are the commissions that attend to business that established branches of Government consider too tiresome or time-consuming to be bothered with. In 1955, for instance, a commission was set up to find a suitable monument for President Franklin Roosevelt; it is still trying to do so, at a cost of $33,000 a year...
...Commission failed to dispel suspicions that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the only man involved in the killing. Unless given a specific goal, and a deadline, commissions can labor for years over the most trifling matters. The Corregidor-Bataan Memorial Commission took 14 years to arrange to build a monument to U.S. and Filipino war dead. In the interval, the exasperated Filipinos put up their own memorial. Even when a commission issues a persuasive report, it is often ignored. Numerous Government task forces have come to the conclusion that Negro ghettos must receive more substantial federal aid. Yet, says Sociologist...