Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only indicative of Mikhail Gorbachev's leash-loosening policies but also an official seal of disapproval on the past. Now every literate Soviet citizen can get a popularized characterization of Stalin as he broods about the brutal nature of power and dreams of rebuilding Moscow as a monument to his reign...
...previous three days. The plant management broadcast an announcement warning nonstriking employees, some of whom had continued to report to work, to remain at home until further notice. As the morning wore on, crowds of curious onlookers gathered behind police lines at the main shipyard gate, near the steel monument of three crosses erected by Solidarity in memory of workers killed in antigovernment protests there in 1970. Inside, strikers collected in groups to chant "Solidarnosc...
...from the King and Queen of Sweden to Bianca Jagger and Dick Cavett. By week's end more than 45,000 collectors and curiosity seekers had milled through Sotheby's showrooms, 10,000 of them on a single day. For some, Warhol's vast collection was a monument to the materialism that the artist enshrined in his Campbell Soup can and Brillo pad artworks. For others, it was a microcosm of one man's obsessive greed. Either way, marveled Writer Fran Lebowitz, wandering around in the nearly two acres of memorabilia was "like being in a theme park...
Such swordplay was what the world expected of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy Roosevelt's oldest child, widely described as the "other Washington Monument," who died in 1980 at the age of 96. Friends saw something more. Near death, she roused herself to reprove a guest for being too polite: "I will not have good manners in my house." But as this fascinating, sharply observed biography makes clear, courage and an edged wit were not Alice Longworth's only strong qualities. She was also unfailingly selfish and intermittently cruel. The ruling event of her life came shortly after her birth, when...
...College must also be certain that the monument does not glorify the South. The Civil War was primarily a political and economic struggle. But the Confederacy, Dixie, and the Stars and Bars have all become symbols of hate. In Alabama, the state capitol is topped by a confederate flag. It wasn't placed there during reconstruction, but during the battle over desegregation...