Word: monumentalize
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...national monument," the doctor tells him. "That monument must be ... defaced." The method: "I intend to find his weakness and use it to destroy him." In a word: brainwash...
...embellish the city, its churches and palaces he drew on the talents of Brunelleschi, Donatello, Fra Lippo Lippi, Uccello, Luca della Robbia. The great monument to his ideal, a marriage between humanism and religion, was the San Marco convent, which Cosimo prevailed upon Pope Eugenius IV to transfer from the Sylvetrines to the Dominican Observants. Cosimo ordered his favorite architect Michelozzo to repair the building, richly endowed it with 400 rare manuscripts and classic statues of Venus and Apollo. To do the frescoes, Cosimo called on the great Dominican painter Fra Angelico...
...Solitary Singer, by Gay Wilson Allen, gave Poet Walt Whitman his sturdiest monument, a huge, perhaps overstuffed life that probably includes every available scrap of information about Walt...
...National Park Service will become caretaker of the Edison gifts next year, run the home as a historic site, reopen the musty old lab as a national monument...
...Akron City Club; Birmingham at 12 noon, Dec. 30 in the Redmont Hotel; Central Ohio at 12 noon, Dec. 29 in the Athletic Club in Columbus; Cleveland at 12 noon, Dec. 29 in the Manager Hotel; Dayton at 8 p.m. Dec. 27 in the Dayton Y.M.C.A., 117 West Monument Avenue...