Word: monumented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This summer, in an attempt to recapture Wieland's spirit of adventure, Wolfgang relaxed the family's autocratic grip on Wagner's monument by allowing Director August Everding and Designer Josef Svoboda to stage The Flying Dutchman. Everding, 40, is the di rector of Munich's Kammerspiele, one of Europe's most highly regarded repertory theaters. Czechoslovak Svoboda, 49, is famed both for his mastery of lighting techniques (he was one of the leading figures of Prague's celebrated Laterna Magika) and for startling stage designs (TIME, July...
SHAKESPEARE SUMMER FESTIVAL, Washington, B.C. (July 9-Aug. 24). A modern rock musical version of As You Like It will be performed outdoors at the Sylvan Theater on the grounds of the Washington Monument...
When the Nixons moved into the White House, most art critics thought that they would prove to be as square as a cross section of the Washington monument. As it turns out, the Nixons are not all that square. Not being expert themselves, they may not be too sure about what they like. But they are willing to take the advice of knowledgeable authorities...
...GEORGE'S HALL in the Great Kremlin Palace in Moscow remains a magnificent monument to the glories of the Czars, a sculpted hymn to Russia's historic national interests. The only concession to the Communist era is a giant painting of Lenin in the antechamber. Inside the hall itself, huge chandeliers illumine white marble wall plaques celebrating the knights who won fame and honor in the Czarist army; shaped in stucco are Russian victories from the 15th to the 19th century. It was amid those trappings last week that the Soviet Union, in quest of another, far more difficult victory...
...stolidly in America's heartland, St. Mary's is an assertive symbol of that fraternal association Churchill bespoke, a reminder of the common heritage of both nations. On simpler esthetic grounds, it stands amidst Missouri's flat plains as a monument of excellence that the uninstructed can admire, a standard that traditionalists can repair to, and a challenge that the creative can strive to surpass...