Word: monumentalize
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...cried: "Come over into Macedonia and help us!" Paul carried the Gospel across the Aegean, through Macedonia and down to Athens, where in the agora below the Acropolis he preached his most famous sermon, proclaiming "the unknown God" to whom the Athenians had erected a monument. Almost as well known is Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, when they knelt weeping on the shore after he had told them, "You . . . will see my face no more...
...altruism" with his duty-setting "categorical imperatives." It was he who bred the mental worm that makes modern men "equate self-interest with evil," that makes businessmen afraid to admit they seek profits (i.e., happiness), that leaves the victims of dictatorship feeling "selfish" if they resist. "The ulti mate monument to Kant and the whole altruist morality is Soviet Russia...
...flitted from school to school-Wyoming Seminary (Methodist) in Kingston, Pa., the University of Maryland, Georgetown University-played topflight tennis and some football, and did little else. He sold Crackerjack at Griffith Stadium, spent many a summer as a lifeguard in the Tidal Basin Pond near the Washington Monument...
...Cool Monument. It was mastery of the water problem that first made Arizona a place to live instead of a place to leave. In 1867 an Indian fighter named Jack Swilling began to investigate the ruins of some ancient canals (believed to have been built in the loth century by the Hohokam people). Swilling decided to set up an irrigation company, succeeded in starting a new town. One literate resident proposed that they call their town Phoenix because, he said, they would raise there a new civilization upon the ruins of the old. The new civilization...
Phoenix cherishes another unique monument to desert progress: the downtown Fox Theater, in 1931 the first building in town to install an air-conditioning system. As mechanical air conditioners became cheaper, they eventually became a necessity for every business, standard equipment in homes. This simple piece of technology, now installed in automobiles, made the desert endurable year round, made the vast reaches of Arizona a promising center for easy living...