Word: monumentalize
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...traces of Christianity that for almost five centuries Byzantine art-once the glory of Eastern Christendom-could be judged only through the examples that survived outside the Moslem world. Then, in 1935, Turkey's Kemal Ataturk declared Istanbul's Church of St. Sophia a historical monument, and cleared the way for Western experts to remove the plaster and paint that pious, iconoclastic Moslems had daubed over the great Christian mosaics. Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof of the power and achievement of Byzantine religious art between the 4th and 15th centuries...
...picture of the Merchant Marine's graduation is a colossal monument to intolerance, injustice and stupidity. If Eugene Landy should turn into a Communist, who could blame him ? Shame...
Papa Saint-Forget would just as soon forget his offspring-they had been taken away from him as infants and designated a "national monument" by the government. To make matters worse, the five, in the old man's view, had all turned out unsatisfactorily. "At their mother's funeral," he fumes, "they appeared, wearing gloves!" Nevertheless, the committee decides to go ahead with the fete, dispatches the boys' godfather to round them up. As portrayed by Fernandel, they are an odd lot indeed...
...Socialist-controlled city council of Nürnberg, Germany decided to ignore protests of religious leaders, voted to rebuild a monument (destroyed by the Nazis in 1933) to 19th century German Atheist-Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, one of the thinkers who influenced Karl Marx. The council also decided to restore the old inscription: "Man created God according to his image...
...Kaiser was too complex to be either all of the time, but there were times when he could seem like both. To a sculptor working on a monument to Wilhelm's parents (Kaiser Friedrich and Kaiserin Victoria), the Kaiser sent an order saying that "Prussian eagles, even when sitting, must be represented as if they were flying." No great soldier himself, he worried his general staff, as Author Kürenberg puts it, by "losing himself more and more in external trappings, designing new uniforms and braidings or inventing cords and silver whistles for dispatch riders." He could...