Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commemoration of courageous moments and men brings out the best in President Kennedy. He likes heroes, medal winners and war stories. He stood tall and proud last week at the White House reception for Astronaut Gordon Cooper. In Manhattan, at the brief dedication of a monument to the 4,596 American men who perished in western Atlantic waters during World War II, the President was moved to emotion and eloquence...
...Victorian taste. Guides on one of the sight-seeing tours now conducted through Cambridge claim that Harvard wanted so much to erect a great and lasting tribute to its Civil War dead that University officials asked every leading architect in America to contribute one detail to such a monument, put them all together and erected Memorial Hall...
...with the Loeb, the future of the VAC is much in doubt. It is not inconceivable that the Center could become a glamorous and powerful monument to an idea frozen to death by a chilly Harvard atmosphere. The building did not appear overnight, but during the long period of its construction and planning few conclusions were reached on a program for the Center. Only a handful of courses in the visual arts will be offered next Fall, and even these seem to be largely experimental ventures, without a coherent program to guide them or indicate further classes...
...among the neo-Palladian splendors of the alabaster city. Waiters spilled bits of plastic from trays onto the audience. A woman came on wearing a shredded American flag on her head; her spine was as stiff as a flagpole. It had to be, since it was part of the monument to the victory at Iwo Jima, and three soldiers held her at the appropriate tilt. A 14-year-old boy in a Lincolnesque beard entered the room, was shown to his seat, and sat there waiting to be shot...
...capital cities of the U.S. took shape for the most part when a public building was something with a cupola and plenty of columns. New York's state capitol is a monument to the architectural style that might be called Ugly American-a granite mishmash of Second Empire, Francis I and Romanesque, with Doric columns, Corinthian columns, tile roofs, slate roofs, dormers, chimneys and rusticated stone work. The city it dominates is appropriately dismal. But last week plans were unveiled that will make Albany, in the words of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, "the most beautiful capital city in the United...