Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abstract & Shiny. At the Greenwich Village A.C.A. Gallery of Herman Baron, patron of proletarians, an exhibition of work by eight young sculptors contained some of the best and some of the worst artistic efforts seen in that neighborhood in years. In the first category were Isamu Noguchi's Monument to Benjamin Franklin, gay, shiny and abstract suggestion of key, kite and lightning; Vladimir Yoffe's Design for Keystone, a powerfully carved hunk; and Milton Hebald's bronze Girl Walking (see cut), a 12-in. figure which almost anybody would like. Critics thought it a promising departure...
...further suggest that the "million U. S. taxpayers" who, like myself, have long awaited news of this inevitable accident contribute to a fund to erect a monument commemorating the spot. What would be more fitting than to have Ellis Colvin pose for the sculptor, assuming the position he had the moment before the calamity fell? What do other tax (W)PAyers say to this...
Harvard will remember the 300th anniversary of the death of its name-sake today at noon, when President Conant, Jerome D. Green '96, Secretary to the Corporation, and Samuel Eliot Morison '08, official historian of the University, visit the old Charleston burying ground and lay a wreath on the monument of John Harvard...
...monument of John Harvard was erected a century ago by alumni. Harvard died on Sept. 14, 1638, which according to the present calendar is Sept...
...sort of Dixie Eton, sits aristocratically in the Virginia hills seven miles across the Potomac from Washington. Older than St. Mark's, St. Paul's, Groton, Hill and Hotchkiss, this home of traditions older than four U. S. wars looks down on the Capitol and the Washington Monument. On its list of old boys, living and dead, is many a name prefixed by Robert Edward Lee, many another famed old Southern name: Pinckney, Stuart, Randolph, Bryan, Cocke, Fairfax, Carter, Kinsolving. When Northern troops occupied the school buildings in the Civil War, virtually all the 75 students were away...