Word: monumented
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...magical contraption on Brattle Street. The suggestion that Gaethe's Faust be performed annually at the Loeb Drama Center has been advanced before, by no less an alumnus than Lucien Price, but the Loeb has evidently treated it as mere frivolity. Fading recollections of that supremely serious monument of art may have inclined them to believe that the difficulties of production are too great, and the translations too stilted, for performance at their theatre. They should read it again, in Philip Wayne's translation, and see themselves answered: the Loeb was built for Faust, and Faust for the student...
...story building that is even taller than the Peking-controlled Bank of China-which was deliberately built a few feet higher than the British-run Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Resplendent with Venetian mosaics and bulletproof glass counters, the new Hang Seng building is an aluminum-and-glass monument to the ability of Chinese businessmen to ride out shifting political tides. In 30 tumultuous years. Hang Seng has grown from a modest gold changer with capital of $21,000 to Hong Kong's biggest Chinese-owned bank, with assets of $63 million...
Jimson then organizes a community mural of the Last Judgment on the wall of a condemned chapel, and himself demolishes it with a bulldozer to spare the wreckers the ignominy, as he explains it, of "destroying a national monument." In the end, he cuts his houseboat adrift, and idles down the Thames dreaming of something even more spectacular perhaps on the side of a battleship...
...absence of a public monument (some outdoor version of the Laocoon would seem to be called for), Upton Sinclair has written his autobiography...
...progressive cause since 1900 and has published 90 books, most of this unimaginable wordage being in the promotion of beliefs that range from socialism and mental telepathy to vegetarianism and teetotalism, and against Mammon-variously embodied as Privilege, the Trusts, the House of Morgan, the Press, etc. As monument, the book is touchingly human. As autobiography, it is something less; success in that elusive art is achieved only by those whose quarrel has been with themselves rather than the world. Sinclair, who has quarreled with everybody else, has never found the slightest reason to criticize himself. But the book...