Word: monumentalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look back on their benighted communist past with a bitter nostalgia. A young Russian engineer, now unemployed, says he felt "nothing but shame" when, on TV, he saw his country's awkwardly named "Unified Team" compete in hockey during the Winter Olympics. A taxi driver, passing Moscow's heroic monument to the Soviet space program, comments matter-of-factly that it was built "when we still had pride in ourselves...
UNESCO hopes to recruit several thousand demobilized soldiers to help guard the monuments and begin clearing out the water system. As more tourists pour in and new facilities are built, the pressure on the provincial authorities to provide funds for the monuments will increase. But Narasimhaiah of the Indian archaeology team has some advice for scientists interested in restoration: "You have to love your monument. It should be like the relationship between a doctor and a patient. If a doctor doesn't have faith in his patient, he will never cure him." And if nothing else, the monuments of Angkor...
Saddam Hussein's Monument: An Exercise inThinking About Cultural Relativism--by KananMakiya, architect and author of Republic of Fearand The Monument: Art, Bulgarity, andResponsibility in Iraq. Wednesday, March 18, 5:30p.m. Moore Room, Building 6, Room 321, MIT. Free...
...private citizen should engage in public service. Soon after World War II, he joined the old-line Wall Street law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. For decades, his partners have been granting him leaves so that he can devote long, unbillable hours to difficult tasks. His career is a monument to the concept of pro bono publico. As compensation for his current assignment, he has asked...
...protesters marched from the Capitol up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Washington Monument, demanding that President Nixon end the war. They carried coffins printed with the names of the war dead. Hundreds of paratroopers with loaded rifles stood on alert inside the Justice Department and the Pentagon. The White House was surrounded by Washington city buses parked bumper to bumper as a barricade...