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...prevent "Process and Reality" from over directly affecting more than a small number of industrious and independent thinkers. But its indirect effect has been and will continue to be enormous, it should forever remain, a landmark in the history of the intellect, a perpetual source of fundamental ideas, a monument in metaphysics, cosmology and theology, a watershed separating off twentieth century from nineteenth century thought...
...called 'the largest monastery in the world.' . . . No [European] woman has ever been within 60 miles, except the six ENSA [British USO] girls, who arrived for one night in June 1944, and left their high-heeled footprints in the soft cement outside the Brigade Headquarters mess. This monument remains, to the puzzlement of the tribesmen...
...president of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Six abreast in precise lines, the Reds swung along under their mingled banners: the green & white flag of Italy and the red hammer & sickle. "Viva Stalin. . . . Death to De Gasperi!" shouted the fur-capped Ligurian Brigade as it passed the garish white marble monument to the Unknown Soldier. Italian partisans cheered the words of their leader, Luigi Longo: "We do not consider ourselves museum pieces. ... In our hearts are intact the enthusiasm and ideals of conspiracy and of insurrection...
...class by itself was Thomas Mann's collected criticism, Essays of Three Decades: the monument to a life's work...
...Columbia which was his monument. Columbia had fewer than 4,000 students when Butler became its president; today it tops 30,000, and its faculty is among the nation's four best. He once told the alumni (paraphrasing "Bloody Mary") that if they opened him they would find "Columbia" written on his heart. Two years ago, he reluctantly surrendered the presidency he had held for 44 years.* Last week Nicholas Murray Butler, 85, and blind for the past year, died in the shadow of the great campus he had built on Morningside Heights...