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...first Police Day speaker had barely begun when an unexpected incident occurred. From the gauntly Gothic cathedral, past the huge monument of John Huss at the stake, rolled organ music. Policemen soon silenced the inappropriate sound, and the celebration continued. But throughout the world, people with an ear for the rhythm of history knew that what happened in Prague last week had happened before and would, quite possibly, be repeated in capital after capital...
Saarinen's plans, drawn up with the help of his wife (a sculptor) and three aides, called for a tree-dotted, 80-acre area around the arch with two museums, an open-air theater, a tea terrace, a frontier village and five sculptural monuments. The arch itself, said proud St. Louisans, would mark their city like the Eiffel Tower or the Washington Monument...
...story of the death and funeral of Gandhi, however, is best read after a glance south from Delhi, to the place where stands a monument, the Taj Mahal, to another dead Indian. The great Shah Jehan built it to immortalize the memory of his empress' beauty. It is man's most eloquent effort to deny that the body and its beauty dies. It is a triumph of the mortician's art. Some may try to raise a Taj to Gandhi (the prettifiers will scarcely be able to stand statues of that ugly body). But Gandhi...
...members until Harvard Class Day, when they appeared faunting on a lapel a sort of black pen-wiper with white skull-and-crossbones. Some of the antics of the "Med, Facs." become notorious, such as placing a fireman's hat on the head of the solider stop the granite monument on Cambridge Common, which the powers-that-be could not dislodge until the fire department was restore to; by squirted if off! The perpetrator became more famous for this act than for performing (her I am interupted by Dr. Franz, who takes an hour from the CRIMSON by giving...
...Cock. The vast machine which now huffed & puffed for British Socialism was a monument to the steam-powered, grandly gambling free enterprise which had made Victorian England rich. It started in the 1780s, when a friend wrote to James Watt about a fellow inventor: "He has mentioned to me a new scheme which ... he is afraid of mentioning to you for fear of you laughing at him. It is no less than drawing carriages upon the road with Steam Engines. ... He says . . . that there is a great deal of Money to be made...