Word: monumentalize
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...year. Congress is scheduled to act soon on the construction of the Bridge and Marble Canyon Dams as part of the Colorado River Reclamation Bill (HR4671). These dams will flood over half the canyon left unspoiled after the Glen Canyon Dam was built, including the entire Grand Canyon National Monument. Neither dam is designed to trap irrigation water, a job accomplished too effectively by the existing dams upstream. They are proposed for hydro-electric power to pay for the rest of the irrigation project, but their great size would make them more expensive even in the long run than conventional...
...aspirations and desperation of the grassroots Vietnamese behind whom the Buddhists rally. If Thich Tri Quang [April 22] seems wily, militant and unpredictable, it is because of the enigmatic situation he is in, to which we in no small measure have contributed. If Vien Hoa Dao stands as the monument of hope for the Saigon Buddhist masses, Thich Tri Quang most certainly symbolizes the 20th century Vietnamese intellectual desperately attempting to cope with the complexity of modern civilization forced upon him by the currents of history...
...missed the shot. But his friends had seen it. They snickered, applauded. The old man slumped to the seat, content. Like Moses, he had been denied the vision, but had led the people. But he felt the need for some sort of monument, something to remember the experience by. He turned to his followers and murmured, with a cracked voice, "You know, the Genitals would be a great name for a rock 'n' roll group. His eyes closed, and life left...
...both Potter's friends and John Kennedy, might be remodeled. Potter sent a third carbon plea, carefully typed to look like a form letter with a "Save Weld Committee" letterhead, to President Kennedy. The letter explained that Weld should be preserved in its original state as an historic monument because "a President of the United States slept there." Unlike almost every piece of mail the White House receives, the letter never received any acknowledgement...
Nathaniel Benchley novels all have a faintly spurious ring, like canned laughter or the new 25? piece. That is because Benchley's plots generally straddle the line of plausibility. Like most of his eight other novels, The Monument depends on readers who are willing to believe the unbelievable. Its story deals with a campaign to build a Korean War memorial in Hawley, a little inbred New England town on the Atlantic shore. Even before the selectmen vote on it, this modest proposal nourishes more intrigues than the Orient Express and incites more violence, including suicide and murder, than...