Word: monumentous
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...look back on their benighted communist past with a bitter nostalgia. A young Russian engineer, now unemployed, says he felt "nothing but shame" when, on TV, he saw his country's awkwardly named "Unified Team" compete in hockey during the Winter Olympics. A taxi driver, passing Moscow's heroic monument to the Soviet space program, comments matter-of-factly that it was built "when we still had pride in ourselves...
Saddam Hussein's Monument: An Exercise inThinking About Cultural Relativism--by KananMakiya, architect and author of Republic of Fearand The Monument: Art, Bulgarity, andResponsibility in Iraq. Wednesday, March 18, 5:30p.m. Moore Room, Building 6, Room 321, MIT. Free...
...private citizen should engage in public service. Soon after World War II, he joined the old-line Wall Street law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. For decades, his partners have been granting him leaves so that he can devote long, unbillable hours to difficult tasks. His career is a monument to the concept of pro bono publico. As compensation for his current assignment, he has asked...
...protesters marched from the Capitol up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Washington Monument, demanding that President Nixon end the war. They carried coffins printed with the names of the war dead. Hundreds of paratroopers with loaded rifles stood on alert inside the Justice Department and the Pentagon. The White House was surrounded by Washington city buses parked bumper to bumper as a barricade...
...October the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the White House will be marked with a series of seminars about the stately old building, the dignified and durable symbol of this government. George Washington kept close watch over its planning and design, wanting a monument that reflected the majesty of the office. And Washington's insistence that the presidency be founded on the highest dimensions and standards of human character has been the ideal for more than two centuries. When the first President was 15 years old, he compiled for himself 102 "Rules of Civility," which...