Word: monumentalize
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...march will start at 11 a.m. Saturday in front of the White House and end at 2 p.m. with an outdoor meeting near the Washington Monument. Speakers will include Norman Thomas; Dr Benjamin Spock; Carl Oglesby, national president of SDS; and Mrs. Martin Luther King...
Last November 22 was the public anniversary--the end of official mourning, the disclosure of plans for a monument, the release of the official version of the story. This November 22 is the private anniversary...
...have belonged to Du Luth). The result, conceived as a mythical hero (see opposite page), will be unveiled this week on the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota. Possessing both the dignity of a daydream Rodin and the robust romance of a Disneyesque giant, it is an unconventional monument by the unconventional Lipchitz...
...countless bits of crockery, the tow ers were the lifetime hobby of an immigrant Italian tilesetter named Simon Rodia, who built them by hand in his backyard (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951). Since 1963 the Towers have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board as a historic monument, and, in the eyes of younger West Coast artists, they have become a shrine. "No existing church stood for so much to us," says Walter Hopps, director of the Pasadena Art Museum. In fact, he was married there...
This is no mere memoir. It is a monument-but like a monument, it has a ponderous, granitic quality. What makes this all the more disappointing is the fact that it comes from the hand of the same Ted Sorensen who, as John F. Kennedy's chief speechwriter, was partly responsible for the contrapuntal elegance and consistent eloquence of the late President's addresses...