Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, Winthrop said: "We're entitled to better government in Arkansas. I am working for that which I think is right for Arkansas, so that we will take our position with the ranks of states with dignity, not buffoonery." In a more private moment, he built a monument to understatement: "I have a sneaking suspicion that the Governor's bipartisan policy is coming...
...admitted that such courses would be a break with tradition, but stated that "Le Corbusier's building is a monument to the end of tradition." The Carpenter Center is the first building in the U.S. designed by the French architect...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, which supports only a skeletal globe because the Rockefellers feared that a solid sphere would darken the nearby window fronts; of cancer; in Easton, Md. Among his other massive works: sculptures ornamenting the Bok "Singing Tower" at Lake Wales, Fla., the U.S. battle monument at Saint-James Manche, France, and the 8½-ton statue of a muscle-bound grain sower that stands atop Nebraska's state capitol...
...magical contraption on Brattle Street. The suggestion that Gaethe's Faust be performed annually at the Loeb Drama Center has been advanced before, by no less an alumnus than Lucien Price, but the Loeb has evidently treated it as mere frivolity. Fading recollections of that supremely serious monument of art may have inclined them to believe that the difficulties of production are too great, and the translations too stilted, for performance at their theatre. They should read it again, in Philip Wayne's translation, and see themselves answered: the Loeb was built for Faust, and Faust for the student...
...story building that is even taller than the Peking-controlled Bank of China-which was deliberately built a few feet higher than the British-run Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Resplendent with Venetian mosaics and bulletproof glass counters, the new Hang Seng building is an aluminum-and-glass monument to the ability of Chinese businessmen to ride out shifting political tides. In 30 tumultuous years. Hang Seng has grown from a modest gold changer with capital of $21,000 to Hong Kong's biggest Chinese-owned bank, with assets of $63 million...