Word: monumentalize
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Beginning in the late 1800s, however, people seemed to hanker for history and tradition. Statues of Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant rose in every town and hamlet. In 1907, 20,000 spectators came to see a Jefferson Davis monument dedicated in Richmond. The first of many colonial revivals in design was under way. Historical pageants flourished...
...more than a century, the Custer Battlefield National Monument in southeastern Montana has served as a memorial to the "Last Stand," in which Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer and more than 250 men of the 7th U.S. Cavalry met their death in a fierce battle with Sioux and Cheyenne warriors on June 25, 1876. Last week Congress approved a bill to rename the park the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The bill would also create an Indian memorial there, in recognition that Native Americans too fought and died in the clash, which was their last major victory against...
...Designed to survive the unthinkable and completed in 1958, the year after the Soviets launched the Sputnik satellite, Mount Weather stands as a monument to a potential nightmare. Few in the U.S. government will speak of it, though it is assumed that all along the Soviets have known both its precise location and its mission; defense experts take it as a given that the site is on the Kremlin's targeting maps. Yet Mount Weather remains an integral part of the U.S.'s "Continuity of Government" plan, under which senior officials are to be whisked away in case...
Schuller's great distinction, perhaps, is not just that he was a pioneer of the drive-in church (and his sermons are still broadcast, via a wide-screen TV, to overflow parishioners in the parking lot outside), nor that he has managed to erect a glittering monument to his "Be-Happy Attitudes," but rather that he has gathered a huge nationwide following out of preaching what is in effect Californianism. For if you look at his books (Your Future Is Your Friend, Success Is Never Ending, Failure Is Never Final), and if you walk around his church, as airy...
...Hall, explains that he has encased himself in a foil-like eternal-youth suit because it "keeps out the alpha rays . . . You don't get old." It is the place where cruciferous vegetables were first worshiped. As the millennium draws near, a refurbished Muscle Beach stands as a clogged monument to the mesomorphic, hikers and bikers create traffic jams all over the diminishing wilderness, and rolfers and herbologists find themselves more in demand than ever...