Word: monumentalize
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...Photographer Joe Rosenthal was setting up the dramatic photograph of Hayes, four fellow Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the U.S. flag. Everyone who saw it was stirred by the picture; it brought Rosenthai a Pulitzer Prize, was made into a postage stamp, finally became the model for a monument in Washington to the Marine dead of all wars. For Ira, the picture was a prelude to tragedy...
Harvard President James Walker first suggested a monument in 1863, and an alumni committee, including Ralph Waldo Emerson '21 and Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, some set to work on the details. The group declared that the planned memorial "must ever prove an unfailing source of inspiration and elevated sentiment ... to every succeeding age more dear, and more sacredly to be preserved from dilapidation or decay." The committee also predicated that the Hall would have "unity and simplicity of line and mass." And when the alumni presented the building to the University after its completion in 1876, the Corporation called...
...Colorado River water and 2) conservationists (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant III) who for years charged (erroneously) that the big dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood out the dinosaur remains in the national park there. They have since shifted their argument to the claim that if Dinosaur National Monument is invaded today, Yellowstone will be tomorrow's victim. To the conservationists, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay has a trenchant answer...
...uncritical succession of minor disasters for Hero Wayne: he gets his arm caught in the lining of his sleeve; he shakes hands with a statue instead of a friend; he promptly breaks a desk he has been warned to take good care of. The show is one more TV monument to the accepted fatheadedness of the American husband...
...Cushions & Big Lights. Washington cab drivers are likely to refer to the museum as "the Mellon gallery," which is just what its founder, Financier Andrew Mellon, hoped to avoid. He wanted to build no personal monument but a palace for Everyman, which would be a lasting glory to the nation. The neoclassic building cost Mellon $15 million, is as palatial as any structure to be found in the Western Hemisphere. Its central dome was modeled on the Pantheon in Rome. The rotunda and windowless exhibition wings are constructed of over 40 kinds and shades of marble, from "Istrian Nuage" (Italy...