Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the temple was a monument of stately form. Fenway Park is a misshapen variation on themes in green and grime. It is full of posts and bad seats. The left field wall, built high to convert cheap home runs into cheap doubles, belongs in a pinball game. But, given a choice between the Astrodome and Fenway, one would prefer the latter. On a summer afternoon the park makes delightful patterns of gloomy caverns and sunlit places. It suffers no totalitarian pastel plastic, no carnival scoreboard. It is true to the strange spirit of the city...
...Five of his eight grandchildren he never met at all. Barely noting Svetlana's existence, he lived like an ascetic misanthrope in his dacha at Kuntsevo, the walls covered with blown-up magazine pictures of anonymous children. It was, she recalls, "A house of gloom, a somber monument. Not for anything in the world would I go there now!" And she adds, with a characteristic touch of superstition, that Stalin's soul, "so restless everywhere else," may still haunt that gloomy refuge. Svetlana last saw him two months before his death in March 1953. Trusting no doctors...
About 15,000 people were gathered on the grounds of the Washington Monument, and they all laughed when Joan Baez, 26, hefted her guitar and said, "I would like very much to thank the Daughters of the American Revolution for all the publicity." Joanie really did owe the poor dears of the D.A.R. a vote of thanks-for stumbling over her boobytrap. It seems that Joan had determined as long ago as May that the D.A.R. would refuse permission for her to use its 3,800-seat Convention Hall for a folk-singing peace-in, had quietly arranged with...
...free expression" of the "vitality of the city." When at last the great blue veiling fell away (see opposite page), the crowd, estimated at upwards of 25,000, greeted it with an awed and respectful hush. Against the stark Miesian geometry of the Civic Center stood a majestic monument, its massive metal features-relieved by lacy rods-matching the building's rust-colored Cor-Ten steel girders. Picasso's work gracefully dominated the 78,000-sq.-ft. plaza as much by its delicate airiness as by its mass-both a contrast to the rectilinear building and a foil...
...Mall 50 years ago, and Bunshaft emphasizes this by projecting across the Mall a 500-ft.-long reflecting pool surrounded by broad walkways for outdoor sculpture displays. But he had no desire to interrupt the two-mile vista that stretches from the Capitol past the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial-a vista Bunshaft considers "one of the greatest in all architecture." Instead, he has sunk the pool and sculpture area 7 ft. below the Mall level. So vast are distances in official Washington that the 7-ft. dip will appear, if at all, as the merest line across...