Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unprecedented move to recognize Harvard's Native American alumni, the College has elected to construct a monument in their honor. A plaque will be mounted on the wall of Matthews Hall in recognition of the first five Native American students to attend the College...
Later Tuesday evening, I walked back to the site of Fokin's performances where a makeshift monument had been constructed. I quickly gave up my suspicions. On the sidewalk lay laminated copies of a Boston Globe article on the puppeteer and photos of the man at work...
...term into distinct--but dissonant--halves. Stage One, an activist, anything-is-possible phase lasted from Inauguration to November 1994. In the public mind it was marked by fumbling, waffling, minor scandals, disastrous appointments and above all the grandiose health-care plan that was to be Clinton's monument but that died ignominiously in congressional committees. The voters spoke, sweeping Democrats out of control of House and Senate and indirectly but unmistakably repudiating Clinton...
Beyond the commercialism and hype of the Centennial Olympics [SPECIAL, Aug. 5] could be found a level of courage in individual athletes by which we can all be inspired. We must increase our awareness of terrorism yet not be paralyzed by its threat. Let Centennial Park become a monument to this endeavor. MARY E. NOCE Liverpool, New York...
...When I was walking through the Common, I saw a monument erected by the Italian-American Society and one celebrating Polish heroes," Flaherty said. "Their contributions are significant and shouldn't be ignored, but I couldn't help but wonder why there is no monument to the contributions of Irish-Americans...