Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...18th century English essayist Joseph Addison called it a "great magazine of mortality." For the British people, London's Westminster Abbey is also a monument of national immortality. Next week its bells will ring out to celebrate its 900th birthday. Built by Edward the Confessor on a filled-in island of thorn in the Thames River, it has over the centuries become a pantheon, the sacred environs where an enlightened empire crowns its kings and queens, and where common folk can pray. With its crowded multitude of funeral statuary, the Abbey is a kind of spiritual attic containing mementos...
...Time. Carrying signs with neatly lettered slogans such as SUPERVISED CEASEFIRE, marchers tramped to the base of the Washington monument for oratory by demonstration sponsors. Cried Baby Doctor Spock: "When will the Administration grow up and stop blaming Communists for America's mistakes?" Protest leaders, who took pains to maintain order, posted more than 300 monitors to "persuade" leftist hangers-on to keep down their signs urging U.S. surrender and an immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam. To show that they, at least, were ready for negotiations any time the Communists were willing, SANE leaders capped the proceedings by sending...
Pickets began to assemble in front of the White House about 11 a.m. By noon there were knots of demonstrators on every sidewalk within two blocks of the White House, and by 1 p.m., a circle of marchers had completely surrounded the ellipse in front of the Washington monument...
...march will start at 11 a.m. Saturday in front of the White House and end at 2 p.m. with an outdoor meeting near the Washington Monument. Speakers will include Norman Thomas; Dr Benjamin Spock; Carl Oglesby, national president of SDS; and Mrs. Martin Luther King...
Last November 22 was the public anniversary--the end of official mourning, the disclosure of plans for a monument, the release of the official version of the story. This November 22 is the private anniversary...