Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missed the shot. But his friends had seen it. They snickered, applauded. The old man slumped to the seat, content. Like Moses, he had been denied the vision, but had led the people. But he felt the need for some sort of monument, something to remember the experience by. He turned to his followers and murmured, with a cracked voice, "You know, the Genitals would be a great name for a rock 'n' roll group. His eyes closed, and life left...
...both Potter's friends and John Kennedy, might be remodeled. Potter sent a third carbon plea, carefully typed to look like a form letter with a "Save Weld Committee" letterhead, to President Kennedy. The letter explained that Weld should be preserved in its original state as an historic monument because "a President of the United States slept there." Unlike almost every piece of mail the White House receives, the letter never received any acknowledgement...
...MONUMENT by Nathaniel Benchley. 249 pages. McGraw-Hill...
Nathaniel Benchley novels all have a faintly spurious ring, like canned laughter or the new 25? piece. That is because Benchley's plots generally straddle the line of plausibility. Like most of his eight other novels, The Monument depends on readers who are willing to believe the unbelievable. Its story deals with a campaign to build a Korean War memorial in Hawley, a little inbred New England town on the Atlantic shore. Even before the selectmen vote on it, this modest proposal nourishes more intrigues than the Orient Express and incites more violence, including suicide and murder, than...
Merrick is cunning when it comes to handling talent. "Artists are supersensitive children," he says. "They have to be whipped sometimes, but they have to be whipped with lettuce leaves." Directors, playwrights, designers, songwriters, choreographers-they all say that Merrick is patience on a monument when they come to him with their problems. "The man is a born midwife," says a playwright. "He knows just when to gentle, just when to press." The thing he does best is stay away: he never goes to rehearsals unless he is asked to, shows confidence even if he doesn't feel...