Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absence of elbow room. Entire streets of studios−Rue Vandamme, Rue Moulin-de-Beurre, Rue Vercingetorix−have been razed and replaced by glassy apartment buildings. A Deputy from Montparnasse complains that 140 ateliers have been destroyed in the past two years. La Ruche, spared as a historical monument, still offers 110 studios at $10 a month−but only one-fifth of its inhabitants are artists. More ex-ateliers are increasingly occupied by nonpainters willing to pay fat rents for the chic of living bohemian style...
Fourteen demonstrators continued the sit-in, and most of them were still at the gate early Saturday. They left later in the day to join-peace workshops that were conducted on the grounds of the Washington Monument, but returned Saturday night...
...behind me, and my human limitation protecting me from too obliterating a vision, only to find that the picture was blurred, that God had moved, that the steadfast landmark, feature of all my maps, routes, views, references, had become an unidentifiable shadow. Now, if you are photographing an ancient monument of stone, and the stone moves and the photograph is blurred, perhaps it is wise to tell...
...were her teachers; Mrs. E. H. Harriman was a patroness; and some of her best friends were subjects: Pianist-Statesman Ignace Paderewski, Dancer Anna Pavlova, Surgeon Harvey Cushing, Paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin. In addition to portraits of the wealthy and the famous, the indefatigable Malvina accepted commissions for the monument to English-American friendship at Bush House, London; 104 life-size studies for the Races of Man series at Chicago's Natural History Museum; the American War Memorial at Epinal, France; a flagpole for IBM; a road marker for Milliken Mills. Now 80, she tells all about everything...
...President signs many proclamations, Lyndon Johnson last week told his White House guests. Some of them are "of great significance." Others, he continued in a monument to restraint, are of "somewhat lesser significance and import." The President just wanted to make clear that he thought that the proclamation he was about to sign-designating next Sept. 13 as World Law Day-Was in the great-significance category. The proclamation, said he, "expresses something of the greatest importance about the purposes of the American people and the purposes of the American nation. And that is our commitment to, and our quest...