Word: monumentalize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great Sphinx lay in fleeting twilight. In the background loomed the Pyramid of Cheops, majestic monument to human striving for eternity. Over the entire scene hovered the breath of the silent desert, the hush of ages. Then a voice spoke...
Last week, at the still unfinished "House of the Worker" on the village's main square, Don Giuseppe prepared to dedicate the first monument in Italy to depict Christ as a worker: a 4-by-8-ft. cement bas relief by Roman Sculptor Egidio Giaroli showing Christ as a carpenter at work with two assistants under the gaze of Mary. Bologna's famed archbishop, Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro (TIME, March 30), came to town for the ceremony...
...section (TIME, July 6) that this statue had been purchased from a Manhattan dealer for the city of Salem, Ore. The money was to come from the life savings that Carroll L. Moores, a Salem janitor, had left in trust for the purpose of erecting "a monument...in memory of early Oregon pioneers." The citizens of modern Salem, however, saw newspaper photographs of the sculpture and protested. The nude bronze figure was a far cry from the sunbonneted frontierswoman they had envisioned. Said a Salem housewife: "I would have a difficult time explaining to my young children why we would...
Surely a group of outstanding Americans, including Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Messrs. Milton Eisenhower, Sulzberger, Clay and Lewis, could find a better use for $25 million than a granite monument in Georgia [TIME, Aug. 17], which only a small percentage of the population will ever see. Wouldn't $25 million worth of medical research centers, rural libraries, history scholarships and the like prove a more fitting monument to American history than this eyesore at Pine Mountain...
...outdoors in different colors." To cut costs, Harriman advocates the use of "more prefabricated units such as wall and ceiling panels, heating and ventilating units for classrooms that are completely self-contained. One of the chief causes of wasteful school building," says he, "occurs when a committee seeks a monument, replete with costly ornaments, rather than a truly modern building giving the children a better school to learn...