Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jimson then organizes a community mural of the Last Judgment on the wall of a condemned chapel, and himself demolishes it with a bulldozer to spare the wreckers the ignominy, as he explains it, of "destroying a national monument." In the end, he cuts his houseboat adrift, and idles down the Thames dreaming of something even more spectacular perhaps on the side of a battleship...
...absence of a public monument (some outdoor version of the Laocoon would seem to be called for), Upton Sinclair has written his autobiography...
...progressive cause since 1900 and has published 90 books, most of this unimaginable wordage being in the promotion of beliefs that range from socialism and mental telepathy to vegetarianism and teetotalism, and against Mammon-variously embodied as Privilege, the Trusts, the House of Morgan, the Press, etc. As monument, the book is touchingly human. As autobiography, it is something less; success in that elusive art is achieved only by those whose quarrel has been with themselves rather than the world. Sinclair, who has quarreled with everybody else, has never found the slightest reason to criticize himself. But the book...
...THINK I draw him as a monument, a statue which walks and speaks, something mythical and historical." So says the cartoonist who drew this week's cover of France's President Charles de Gaulle-43-year-old Louis Mitelberg, who calls himself "TIM" simply because an editor once put that name on a cartoon he had neglected to sign. He is France's leading political cartoonist...
...Stilts. Washington's Dulles International Airport, opened for business last week, is a gleaming glass and concrete monument dedicated to the abolition of the dread Last Mile in jet travel. The roof is a concrete hammock slung between rows of gracefully leaning concrete "trees"; everything else is glass, clear and untinted. More important, passengers emplaning at Dulles need walk only 150 feet to board the aircraft, although the plane is parked half a mile away...