Word: monumentalize
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...doubt, Boston's greatest appeal is its cultural opportunities and great institutions. Boston's art treasures rank among the world's greatest. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, located on the Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums...
...Martin (316-397), the great Bishop of Tours whose cult had spread from France to Spain. Though the apse was nothing but a shell exposed to the weather and was not even pictured in a single Spanish book on architecture, the government maintained that it was a national monument. That meant: no sale...
...Birdie and Fiorello! are both unpretentiously funny. Do Re Mi has Phil Silvers, but despite the inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. As for Rodgers & Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is a national monument made of sugar, and should appeal to anyone who likes monuments, sugar or Mary Martin...
From the far-flung corners of the Moslem world, pilgrims last week converged on Mecca, city of the Prophet's birth, where they would make the ritual seven circuits around the shrouded monument and enter to kiss the Black Stone handed down by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham. If they took time to notice, they might have detected a change in the air. Along the six-lane highway that leads inland to Mecca from the Red Sea port of Jiddah, pilgrims were ministered to by mobile hospitals, reservoirs of ice water, and troops of Moslem Boy Scouts...
...audacity to escape from the drugging minutiae of documentary sweepings into the exhilarating reaches of man's whole past? Toynbee lacerates himself too much, and the total effect is damaging. But not annihilating. For after all, A Study of History exists, and it is Toynbee's monument. In Reconsiderations he has chipped it more severely than have all his critics put together, but even this unprecedented exercise in self-criticism leaves it in no danger of toppling...