Word: monumentalize
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...made his own. There, all lives are dead ends, but the turnpikes go on forever. Springsteen certainly has mined this territory before, but he makes the repetition work for him: he can get the same sort of mythic resonance from this setting that John Ford took out of Monument Valley...
...please do not rely upon my opinion. It is unashamedly biased. Instead come along next spring when we shall offer the course again. Maybe then you can decide whether or not it is a "Monument to Futility". William H. Coaldrake Senior Teaching Fellow "Monuments of Japan...
...trite meeting of Woman with Death. And the poem is only a description of two lovers meeting in the forest--the only energy is the contrast between the two kinds of meetings implied. Axinn has written a poem by gluing two vignettes together--and it is a small monument to confusion and disunity...
...city that neither has seen for many years. Like Spain itself since the death of the Generalissimo, these innocents hurtle into the 20th century with ingenuous vigor. Feasting on suckling pig in Madrid's toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest veers toward an ecumenical humanism; the Marxist sighs for a materialistic Utopia. They agree only about the culture that confronts them. Says...
...groups of protesters had begun to gather. In Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity was born two years ago, 4,000 employees filed out of the Lenin shipyard to lay flowers on a towering, triple-spired memorial to workers killed in the 1970 riots. Police and soldiers ringed the monument to prevent other demonstrators from joining the workers. Suddenly, the paramilitary police force, known as ZOMO, rolled toward the monument in three columns of Jeeps, armored personnel carriers and mobile water cannons, firing hundreds of tear-gas grenades into the crowd...