Word: monumentalize
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...loss involved in his retirement, but it may be said that he has quickened generations of students and in his writings he has bridged the gap between scholarship and criticism. He has made criticism learned and scholarship exciting. If any literary scholar of our time has raised a monument more lasting than bronze--and 'a stately pleasure-dome'--Professor Lowes has done...
...Ajaccio, capital of Corsica, 30,000 demonstrators cried "Long Live France, Kill the Duce!" also before the Italian Consulate. Singing the Marseillaise as they paraded in an organized demonstration, war veterans massed in front of Corsica's imposing monument at Bastia to World War soldiers while their chief read to veterans and citizens alike an oath of allegiance to France: "With all our soul, we swear, on our glories and on the graves of our dead, to live and die French!" As one man they echoed back: "We swear...
Outside Westminster Abbey, while London police stood guard before locked doors, passersby saw a glint of light through stained-glass windows. Inside the Abbey, from behind a canvas screen in Poets' Corner, came the clanking of picks. Near the base of Edmund Spenser's monument gravediggers scooped up sand from beneath the stones, uncovered a lead coffin and evidences that two more bodies had been buried in the same grave...
When the stones were taken up, nothing was discovered except that Spenser's monument rested on somebody else's bones. Authorities hastily covered the graves, announced firmly that there would be no more digging in Poets' Corner...
Leonard Crunelle was the sculptor of the monument, made possible through a bequest to the University amounting to over five million dollars from a descendant of the General...