Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of Defense, may authorize larger sites. Accordingly, the Pentagon had offered to set aside for the Kennedy family a total of 3.2 acres. At week's end, however, Jackie asked that those plans be canceled, requested only enough space for eligible Kennedy family members, plus a suitable monument for the dead President...
...student, Capralos threw back the Elgin marbles: "You rich Englishmen have stolen the whole frieze of the Parthenon! How dare you protest when a poor Greek takes a sheet of your paper?" During World War II, Capralos made his own warring frieze a 135-ft. by 33-ft. monument, in plaster relief, to the Greek repulse of the Italian army in the Pindus Mountains No one bought...
...grey helicopter, its red lights blinking, swung past the floodlit Washington Monument, came down onto a steel landing pad on the south lawn of the White House, some 70 feet from Caroline and John Kennedy's treehouse, swing and jungle-gym set. Johnson walked through the flower garden into the oval presidential office. There secretaries had cleared Jack Kennedy's desk of personal mementos: a coconut shell on which he had carved a message of his survival after his PT boat sank in World War II, a silver calendar noting the dates of his confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev...
Promising Dust. If the new eastern Lincoln Center rep group under Elia Kazan becomes a living monument to The Method, it will at least have a counterbalance on the Pacific Coast. Stuart Vaughan has no fondness for The Method. "It seems to me that nothing exists for the audience if it is not heard or seen," he says. "Far from living the part, the actor's function is to tell the audience about an imaginary person who looks and talks and feels like this. I hope the main difference an audience will see in our plays is that they...
...same gigantic dimensions that make Abu Simbel so impressive as a monument make it almost impossible to move. Most of the other monuments threatened by the High Dass have been moved to safety with relatively little trouble and expense. Some will be taken all the way out of Egypt, as rewards by the U.A.R. for archeological aid from other . The stopped-up starch for buried raise that will be hidden permanently by the Nile has been happened only by climate, red tape and a lack of Egyptologist. But Abu Simbel presents a special case...