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...People like Mario and Karen are so well-liked that most strikers might actually feel guilty if they thought the issue of non-students was really being ignored," vanLobensels said. "Mario, especially, is really a 'living monument,' like the newspapers say. But those of us who've been around Berkeley a long time realize why Mario and Karen are non-students. The reason is that the rules are made by distant and sometimes arbitrary figures in Sproul Hall, and administered by those same people. When a student -- like Karen -- is cited once for breaking a rule, one of the little...
...national capital, Jefferson and Lincoln have their memorials, Washington his towering obelisk, and plans are ready for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. But nearly 22 years after his death, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who held the presidency longer than anybody else, lacks any monument other than a small marker on Pennsylvania Avenue...
...first, and the headstrong political pragmatist who eventually came to count few men's counsel above his own. For Moley, disillusion set in soon. He left Washington in September 1933, after only six months as presidential assistant, emissary and speech collaborator. In this book, he builds a private monument over the grave of what he calls the First New Deal...
Three thousand miles to the east, long lines of moviegoers formed along the 50th Street side of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, prepared to stand in numbing patience as long as necessary to see his latest film, Follow Me, Boys. Perhaps later there will be a special monument, but now not even a meditative ceremony-just the show going on. Disney was dead, but not his vision of innocence, nor the dreams he made...
Basic Grammar. Today the sculpture they welded at the Borsig factory stands outside West Berlin's Free University, a soaring monument to the country's postwar technological strides. Similar commissions by the pair, along with a large exhibition currently traveling throughout West Germany, reveal a technical facility in touch with the times. Most of the acclaim goes to Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff, 43, today ranked as Germany's leading sculptress. Her collaborator husband does not mind his relative oblivion. A former actor, he figures that she was already well on her way before they became a team...