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...keystone of their idea has been to make the Kennedy Library in Harvard Square on a scale comparable to the monument erected in Texas in his own honor by the departed Lyndon Johnson. This edifice will then be complemented by the development of new hotels, shopping centers and highways. And followed by the city wide expansion of the universities and their spin-off industries. The plan, even at the outset, will destroy the residential communities of Cambridge port and Riverside, where, already, homeowners are selling out to un principled real estate speculators who intend to turn the area into...
...history book. The oldest layer dates back some 8,000 years, proving that the site of Koster's cornfield-and probably other parts of the fertile Illinois River valley as well-were inhabited long before the Egyptians built the Pyramids or the ancient Britons erected their monument at Stonehenge...
...situation is quite different with the Tempest and Merchant of Venice incidental music and the In Memoriam overture. In Memoriam is a masterpiece and a monument to the best aspects of Victorian music. Written the same year as the Symphony and dedicated to his recently-deceased father, it builds from a quiet start through a restless central section for strings. The climax at the end is spectacular: the large orchestra (augmented by two extra horns and ophicleide) is joined by the organ. To see the Royal Albert Hall in London and the organ there is to know where In Memoriam...
...moral issue. Do you destroy a city to put up a monument for a person who fought for poor people all his life? I'm sure President Kennedy did not want it in an urban area," City Councillor Saundra Graham said last week about the Kennedy Memorial Library...
...world capitals go, Vientiane is, well, a little different. The main boulevards are rutted dirt roads; water buffalo languidly nibble garbage in its gutters, and in the White Rose nightclub, bar girls dance naked with the customers. Vientiane's architectural showpiece, a soaring monument to the dead, is mockingly called the "great vertical runway" - not because it leads straight to heaven, but because it is made of concrete diverted from an airport improvement project. Yet for all its oddities, Vientiane is the only Southeast Asian capital where real progress is currently being made toward ending hostilities...