Word: monumentalize
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...beach of Leyte just south of Tacloban, U.S. landing barges rust in the surf. A monument near by proclaims proudly that here in 1944, General Douglas MacArthur and the Americans landed to restore the Four Freedoms to the Philippine Islands...
...Tacloban, and in all the cities, provinces and villages of the Philippines last week, the words on the monument were put to their severest test. In an atmosphere heavy with threats, of intimidation and violence, even with talk of possible civil war, Filipinos turned out to elect a President and Vice President, a full House of Representatives and one-third of a Senate. The world looked on, wondering if U.S.-style democracy had really taken root...
When Pedrarias killed Balboa, he also doomed Darién. Pedrarias was not anxious to have the settlement endure as a monument to his predecessor, and the Indians, provoked to enmity by the new regime's cruelty, made life difficult for the Spaniards. In 1524, Santa Maria del Antigua was abandoned, and today the jungle covers Darién much as it did "four and a half centuries ago, when a few hundred adventurous men from Castile took a corner of it to build a town and shape their arrogant dreams of subjugating half a world...
Wriston envisioned the solution and today the "Quadrangle" stands as a monument to the new Brown cohesion. This eight-acre series of muddled dorms and fraternities houses 60 per cent of the undergraduates. A pale-red brick wall and grass moat surround the labyrinth of closely-packed buildings. No one suffers from clostrophobia and everyone finds they have a new centralized social life...
...writes Historian Bainton, "as the occasion for the rise in volume and intensity of the toleration controversy within Protestantism." This year John Calvin's old congregation in Geneva has subsidized a study entitled "Michael Servetus, Heretic and Martyr." And at the base of Champel there is now a monument to Servetus, erected in 1903 by local Calvinists-"Sons," as its legend reads, "respectful and grateful of Calvin, our Great Reformer, but condemning an error which was that...