Word: monumentalize
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...homeland, John Paul is still regarded as a kind of uncrowned king. The yellow stone house where he was born in Wadowice -- appropriately on Koscielna, or "Church," Street -- is now a museum that receives 180,000 visitors a year. Six families were relocated to make way for this monument to the city's favorite son. In the second-floor flat, Sister Magdalena, a knowledgeable if sometimes stern tour guide, shows off memorabilia such as the young Karol's favorite canoe paddle, his hickory skis and the three papal robes John Paul donated as exhibits. Please stop by the gift shop...
More than any watershed historical monument or poetic irony, the most important lesson I learned at Harvard was taught to me during a groggy morning lecture in Memorial Hall, coincidentally around the same time I decided to become a Big Brother. Sharing the spiritual verse of Dorothy Day, Professor Robert Coles '50 sat humbly at the front of the stage and whispered: "There is a call to us, a call of service--that we join with others to try to make things better in this world." It was, therefore, not surprising to see these inspiring words on the back cover...
...decades since the end of World War II. The Germans won. After the failure of the Normandy invasion, a humiliated General Dwight D. Eisenhower retreated into retirement, Winston Churchill fled to exile in Canada, and virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler...
...President A. Lawrence Lowell is credited with first suggesting a new chapel, calling it "the best monument that we can build to these our heroes...
Criticism persisted, however, over the religious nature of the monument...