Word: monumentalize
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...Monument to Demagoguery. Orval Faubus, meanwhile, had flown back from Sea Island. Arriving in Little Rock, Faubus joked feebly: "I feel like MacArthur. I've been relieved of my job." But Orval Faubus had no intention of fading away. He holed up in his executive mansion and began working on a national television speech...
...second monument in the Advocate is a translation of the third act of Moliere's The School for Wives, by James A. Matisoff. The translation seems good enough, but why the Advocate should feel it is making a contribution to Harvard literary creativity by filling nine complete pages with a Moliere play or why anyone should be interested in reading it is difficult to understand...
MOST Americans think of housemaids as they visualize the noble redskin-a monument in the old days but a vanished American in 1957. Nothing could be farther from the truth. After a decade of decline, the number of household helpers is rising again, has climbed 50% in the last few years to 1,971,000 chambermaids, laundresses, cooks and cleaning women, another 50,000 butlers and valets-to say nothing of that uniquely American profession, the dollar-an-hour baby sitter. Today's maid shortage is a scarcity of financial plenty. For every U.S. woman who has a maid...
...Lord Chancellor (1945-51) in the Cabinet of Labor's Clement Attlee, writer of whip-witted prose on legal subjects. Most notable of his works: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, in which he concluded that Defendant Hiss (see PEOPLE) was unjustly convicted of perjury, the case a monument to feckless U.S. justice and the jury system...
...already flaking away in a slow death of peeling paint, collapsed masonry, commercial clutter and neglect. Nobody much cared. The fashion then was to lavish attention on the bustling new inland capital of Ankara. As time passed, tourist interest and national pride in the possession of a great historical monument gradually restored Turkish affection to the city they now called Istanbul. Still, nobody did much about repaving its streets, restoring its buildings or clearing its slums until last summer, when energetic Adnan Menderes, cooling off on the Bosporus, chanced to rummage around in some old plans for refurbishing the city...