Word: monumentalize
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...exterior is done but whose interior awaits the raising of more millions. As the four men walked up the hill toward it, the pale, intense, esthetic Chancellor told his companions what the Cathedral means to him. It was his vision; it is his life work; it will be his monument. To build it, a "spiritual symbol" for the city and the University, he has spent 14 years wheedling money from charwomen and millionaires. For it he has sacrificed many things, among them the liberal principles he once held. His Board of Trustees is packed with the reactionary industrialists who gave...
...conclusion of this article you made mention of the President's intention of turning the Key into a National Monument. You did not, however, state that Dry Tortugas is one of the closed ports of the U. S. and therefor closed to all commercial or pleasure craft...
Right is Reader Moffett, nephew of Federal Housing Administrator James A. Moffett. Under Navy administration, not even airplanes were permitted to fly over closed Tortugas. But as a National Monument it will be opened to visitors...
...seven-mile boardwalk along the ocean front and the special force of 24 patrolmen whose chief duty it is to see that visiting couples keep their more wayward ideas to the privacy of hotel rooms, that male bathers keep their shirts on. Perhaps even more of a civic monument is Mayor Harry Bacharach, who attracted considerable attention two years ago when he moved his office to a space on an amusement pier between a chimpanzee and a hermaphrodite so that job-seeking visitors must pay 25? apiece...
...plaster, the latest exhibition of the works of able young Isamu Noguchi, son of a Japanese father, a U. S. mother. The show contained the usual Noguchi melange of clever portrait heads, elaborate abstractions, projects for impossible architectural developments. In the latter manner was a strange triangular something called Monument to the Plow...