Word: monumentalize
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...first he faced down the lawn toward the Washington Monument. The girls wanted the children who were coming for the party to see a smile, so they made another face on the back of the snowman. Julie Eisenhower got her father to unbend a bit and come out with her mother to pose for pictures...
With its night still pierced by nearly all of its famous neon jungles, Tokyo is something of a dragon's palace. It is an outlandish monument to nonchalance in the face of a fuel shortage and economic repercussions that will hurt Japan far more than the U.S., and even more than Western Europe. But behind its hectic face, there is a clearly sensed feeling of desperation, the atmosphere of a Japanese Walpurgisnacht...
...responsibility rests. It was God and not the boys at Zero Freedom Square who, manifesting that recurrent and annoying disregard of detail, sent Wunderkind Marty Kaplan to us three years too soon. This obviously did not stop Marty, suggesting that the book might be viewed primarily as a monument to Free Will. In fact, my guess is that one hundred years from now, this book will not be remembered because it was especially funny, or because it cast a unique light on our age, or because it was the first anthology published by a collegiate publication, or even because...
...capital for his empire on the dry plains of northern India. Vast amounts of money were spent, and the best architects and artisans were hired to lay out its imposing squares and build its graceful, airy palaces. Virtually untouched by the centuries, Fatehpur Sikri still stands-a beautiful monument to bad planning. Just 15 years after it was completed, Akbar's capital exhausted its water supply and was summarily abandoned...
...merits of this thesis, it is hardly an original one, and Cohen's failure to refine it is consequently serious. Cohen is a Harvard MBA, much as the school may like to forget it after this mistake of a book, and as such he may well be a living monument to one of the major problems the Business School faces--its curriculum has a balance between theory and practice different from the rest of the university's and therefore its graduates, however adept at management, may not be so good at writing what should be imaginative sociological studies. Cohen...