Word: monumentalizing
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...sometimes teary-eyed crowd of roughly 1000 watched as the monument--two black marble triangles bearing the fifty names, maps of Vietnam, and the reminder, "we can't forget"--was unveiled in Somerville's Union Square by members of the Somerville/Cambridge Vietnam Veterans Memorial Committee...
...This is like giving birth to a baby," said Joseph Leccese, a truck driver and designer of the monument. Leccese, who served in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, said he started the design a year and a half ago and wanted something simple and elegant with "clean lines...
...Memorial Hall: Though it was designed in 1863 by Ware and Van Brunt, the Victorian gothic memorial to Harvard's Civil War dead was not completed until 1878. Memorial Hall is a landmark in architectural history and fundraising efforts. The building was criticized as an extravagently expensive monument, but the money was obtained through one of Harvard's first collaborative alumni fundraisers...
Excitement grew. Last Wednesday I hailed a cab and set off for the Bureau of the Public Debt, division of public debt accounting. I passed the Washington Monument, tall and splendid in the morning light, but only one six-hundredth as tall as Reagan's stack of $1,000 bills. Pressed on around the Department of Agriculture. What pikers! They have only 240 million bushels of surplus corn stored away. A nod down Independence Avenue to NASA. It would take one of their space shuttles nearly a year and a half in orbit reeling out end-to-end dollar bills...
...many years ago, downtown St. Louis was, like most old American downtowns, a void, dreary and disheartening, a place where respectable people worked, bums lived and almost nobody strolled. Given that lifelessness, the city's attempt to create a heroic modern monument to itself in 1965, Eero Saarinen's arch beside the Mississippi, came to seem like self-mockery: a pure, gorgeous steel span rising from a dying downtown and a forgotten riverfront, a giant logo erected as a wishful substitute for authentic urban reconstruction...