Word: monumentalize
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...roof. Neighbors deduced that they were building a secret racing car; the Gens boys insisted that they were merely enlarging their basement. They were indeed digging-straight down. In the process, they were uncovering one of the most important Roman relics ever found in Germany: the funeral monument of Lucius Poblicius, a 1st century veteran of the Roman legions and citizen of Cologne...
Perfect Satyr. Erected between 50 and 69 A.D., the monument was discovered by the Gens brothers in 1965 beneath the shop basement. Exposing a large limestone block, they dug around it and discovered the perfectly preserved figure of a satyr chiseled in bas-relief on one side. Beneath the first block, they found a second, also carved. They called officials of Cologne's Roman-Germanic museum, who immediately bought the stones for $2,000 but explained that archaeological teams could not be spared at the moment to in vestigate the site. In the meantime, the museum officials, who have...
...Roman cops were not so sure. When the visitors, lacking a table to sign papers on, began moving a heavy stone slab around to make do, a dozen carabinieri came on the run to halt what looked like desecration of a national monument. When the sideshow ended at last, "the Greatest Show on Earth" passed to its new owners...
...people in this glass house throw pebbles, not stones, and such damage as they do is not to flesh but to sensibilities. Since the house is tall, stands on the bank of Manhattan's East River and is a monument to international good works, it may be as well to see it as U.N. headquarters. Shirley Hazzard calls it simply the Organization-though she worked at the U.N. for ten years. The characters represent many nations, but, above all, they represent one way of life. What they do and say provides a fictional counterpart to William Whyte...
...shaping what he scoops from his river of sound. Yet if the form still seemed elusive to the Philharmonic audience last week, that is apparently the way Takemitsu wants it. Not for him the lucid structure of a Beethoven Ninth Symphony. "It's a great architectural monument," he says, "but it's not my kind of music because it draws a distinction between man and nature. My music must represent efforts at becoming unified with nature. The composer's mission is to present sound in the original, unpolished form...