Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quincy made one radical concession to individuality: desks in seven sizes for growing scholars. Otherwise, all students passed their years together in box-shaped rooms, class by class, the bright and dull handicapping each other. This week Quincy School reopens its ancient doors, admitting 291 more students, still a monument to "egg-crate" education. For a century such schools have changed only the style of their facades-from Victorian Gothic to WPA Colonial to Neo-Revival...
...remember that the words "monument to the unknown rapist" were once bitterly scribbled on a Russian war memorial in Berlin not too many years ago by Berliners whose memories are longer than yesterday's headlines...
Lloyd Center would probably never have been built if the initiative had been left to Portlanders. It is a monument to the vision and tenacity of a wiry, blue-eyed cowboy named Ralph Bramel Lloyd, who died in 1953 when his dream was only on the drawing board. The son of a Missouri Confederate Army officer, Lloyd moved to California at eleven when his family bought several thousand acres of ranch land in Ventura. One day his father, out riding, came across a grass fire, spurred his horse to the bare ground of a knoll for safety. When the fire...
...American people have responded and will respond to the leadership of a political party which evidences a healthy regard for the people's money," said Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson to the Republican platform committee last week. And as a monument to the Eisenhower Administration's healthy regard, Anderson & Co. posted a $1.1 billion surplus for the 1960 fiscal year (closing June 30). By snapping back into the black after 1959's peacetime record deficit of $12.4 billion, the U.S. actually realized a year-to-year improvement of some $13.5 billion, which itself is a record...
...paintings would look askew because of Wright's sloping "continuous floor." Sweeney devised an ingenious way of displaying his unframed canvases on rods projected from the walls. But for all his innovations, he could never get over the feeling that he was running not a museum but a monument to Wright...