Word: monumented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have belonged to Du Luth). The result, conceived as a mythical hero (see opposite page), will be unveiled this week on the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota. Possessing both the dignity of a daydream Rodin and the robust romance of a Disneyesque giant, it is an unconventional monument by the unconventional Lipchitz...
...countless bits of crockery, the tow ers were the lifetime hobby of an immigrant Italian tilesetter named Simon Rodia, who built them by hand in his backyard (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951). Since 1963 the Towers have been designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board as a historic monument, and, in the eyes of younger West Coast artists, they have become a shrine. "No existing church stood for so much to us," says Walter Hopps, director of the Pasadena Art Museum. In fact, he was married there...
This is no mere memoir. It is a monument-but like a monument, it has a ponderous, granitic quality. What makes this all the more disappointing is the fact that it comes from the hand of the same Ted Sorensen who, as John F. Kennedy's chief speechwriter, was partly responsible for the contrapuntal elegance and consistent eloquence of the late President's addresses...
Schweitzer clearly intended Lambarene to be his monument, and just before he died happily supervised the completion of a new ward. But soon after his burial, Schweitzer's daughter, Rhena Eckert, as much as admitted that the hospital might have a hard time surviving. "We will try to carry on his work," she told reporters, "but Lambarene as a spiritual center is irrevocably gone." In time, the Gabonese villagers may come to prefer the gleaming white government hospital a mile up the river. But Lambarene, and the world, will always have the memory of a giant who tried...
Unfortunately for mademoiselle, her monument will be nearly as gauche as most of the ditties about her. To be erected whenever Armentières can raise the $14,000 that it will cost, it depicts her as a sort of bedroom Joan of Arc surrounded by four admiring soldiers, who are holding her aloft on a serving tray...