Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rusk seemed ready to offer Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin some of the semi-concessions that the U.S. had suggested before* but stood firm on all essentials. Khrushchev's boldest move in 1961 was to raise the Berlin Wall; today it seems less like a master stroke than a monument to the misery of 100 million souls imprisoned in East Europe...
David Brinkley (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The Washington, D.C. monument dilemma and the Baird puppets in India. Color...
What was Yalie reaction to this monument? There was so much sneering and jeering, so much callow, loudmouthed, self-satisfied commentary from the Yale audience that the sound track was usually inaudible, the flow of language lost. There was a good deal of cheering for home states and home towns. If a banjo played, it was necessary to clap our Yalie hands. If a march came on it was necessary to stamp our collective, sophomoric feet...
...death blow. A Southern conservative, Holland had led the successful campaign to repeal the poll tax in his own state in 1937; since 1949 he has annually introduced an anti-poll-tax amendment in the Senate. Holland moved that the Senate take up a resolution to make a national monument of Alexander Hamilton's house in New York City...
...coronation, she cuddles her oxygen mask as a normal woman might cuddle a newborn babe, she dimples in maidenly dither at her gigolo's advances, she proceeds a moment later with hard-nosed efficiency to collect what she has paid for. She is a mascaraed monument to the era of the superstar, a veritable muse of publicity...