Word: monumentalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your Essay on an American memorial to the Holocaust victims [May 23] speculates on the propriety of a monument to an event that is "utterly European" and "a horror in which Americans had no part." The responsibility for the Holocaust should not be limited to the Nazis and their collaborators. We who knew of the horror and did not stop it are also guilty. Reports of the death camps were smuggled to Allied authorities with the urgent appeal that the rail lines to the camps and the gas chambers be bombed. This request was denied because, it was said, these...
...other. Brown enlivens his text with quotes, none more pertinent than Wiesel's self-analysis: "When you live on the edge of the mountain, you see the abyss, but you also see very far." Brown sees almost as far, but then he is standing on a monument...
...memorial in Washington will be different. It will be installed on the edge of the Mall, not far from the Washington Monument. It will be utterly European. It will reek of a European suffering and evil...
...Husband David, the late moviemaker best known for Gone With the Wind, is treated with sympathy but still comes off as a monument to destructive compulsions and self-indulgence. Much of his legendary energy appears to have come from a vial of Benzedrine; his lavish spending distracted his attention from huge gambling debts; he was always late, and misspent his time writing gratuitous memos on rolls of two-inch-wide paper that snaked across his desk...
...white-maned skull, not a work which might have alleged against it the taint of journalism (notwithstanding all the protests against dividing fiction and nonfiction which have emanated from one of the country's most inventive, entertaining and best journalists) Ancient Evenings was to be at once Mailer's monument of unaging intellect and his clinching demonstration of imaginative virtuosity--if one can consciously strive for the latter while hoping to achieve the former...