Word: monumentalize
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...most Westerners, the Berlin Wall is a brutal monument to Communism's need to imprison its subjects. Not to Walter Ulbricht. Last week East Germany's Red boss, after studiously ignoring the first four anniversaries of the ugly barrier that divides the city, openly celebrated its fifth birthday with a speech that made one wonder why he had not erected it years before. The Wall, orated Ulbricht, had 1) "saved the peace"; 2) proved the West "impotent"; 3) signified, by its unopposed erection, Allied recognition of the German status quo; 4) established "law and order" in East Germany...
...Westchester Hills Cemetery in Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth Man), the sisters chose the cemetery's biggest plot, which cost some $48,000 and lay opposite the grave cf Composer George Gershwin. They also planned a monument designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
...bronze bust rests in a grove of mountain alder and aspen, looking out over a valley of sagebrush and meandering brooks. It is a fitting spot for a monument to Ernest Hemingway-the area around Sun Valley, Idaho, where he spent the last three years of his life. The dedication came on what would have been the author's 67th birthday, and 300 friends gathered with his widow Mary and son Jack to pay their respects. "I looked around at all the pomp and circumstance," said Jack after the speeches, "and then I saw a fruit...
...Paris Opéra, Maillol bronzes in the Tuileries gardens, Masson's abstracts in the dome of the Comédie Française. He has washed the face of Paris from a dingy grey to honey-colored sandstone, and his art history, Voices of Silence, was a monument to a world he saw as "a museum without walls...
...Alas, their speech shatters any illusion that they could possibly be siblings, let alone the same person. Stuart's is refined, musical, obviously British-trained; Joan Darling's is edgy, ugly, obviously American. Again and again she murders the meter; and, in her beautiful "patience on a monument" speech and elsewhere, she seems not to understand a word she is saying...