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...Berlin Wall was conceived from fear and forged out of hate. A monument to slavery and suppression, the ominous wall divides a great city. The Berliners call out for the destruction of this senseless structure. But Robert Frost, in his "Mending Wall," has said it best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 14, 1962 | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...first anniversary of the Great Wall passes, it still stands as a monument to freedom and heroism instead of the symbol of slavery the East German Communists meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 7, 1962 | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...twice-daily calls to Hyannisport to check on his vacationing family. Sometimes the President paced in the White House gardens. Or, alone at sundown, he stood on Harry Truman's balcony overlooking the White House fountain, a soothing sight before him: the white spike of the Washington Monument, auto headlights flickering along Executive Avenue, the distant Jefferson Memorial. Perhaps such sights make a President think of his own place in history-but John Kennedy is not a man to stop thinking for long about the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Summer Interlude | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...have been dotting the country with churches of all sorts of imaginative shapes, Netsch had to do far more than satisfy one specific congregation, and one creed. He not only had to build a private place of worship for the cadets, he also had to create a national monument. Furthermore, his building would serve Protestants, Catholics and Jews. A single-spire motif would imply one religion, and a three-spire motif would make no sense. The problem was how to produce a building that would be unmistakably a house of worship, without benefit of using, on the exterior at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spires That Soar | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

...doctor husband established a practice in the workers' section of North Berlin, she came to know firsthand the "hardship and tragedy" of her husband's patients. When her 18-year-old son Peter was killed in World War I, her sense of tragedy deepened. The bronze monument she designed for him, showing the two parents grieving, was agony in itself; it took her 18 years to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Created with My Blood | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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