Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though that latent urge never died, it grew robust only at the convergence of several trends and events. One crucial prerequisite: the country at last seems to be contemplating and unsnarling the residual complexities of the Viet Nam War. In Washington, the earth-and-black-granite monument to those who died in the war, which is not quite two years old, draws 12,000 visitors a day. Viet Nam Veteran Jack Wheeler, 39, a driving force behind it, is pleased. "More of the visitors are people my age who didn't go," says Wheeler, author of Touched with Fire...
...amounted to good, dirty fun. Even this modest goal is infrequently achieved. The rest is a disappointing hodgepodge of repetition and irrelevancy. Heller's attitude toward the past remains steadfastly muddled. He obviously appreciates and exploits ancient grandeur; he also cannot resist the urge to deface every monument he encounters. A certain biblical hero had a remedy for such behavior...
With familiar chants of "Solidarnosc!"the crowd joined Walesa in defiantly flashing the V sign and singing the patriotic hymn God Who Watches Over Poland, as hundreds of grim-faced policemen looked on. But Walesa was seeking no showdown. After leaving his bouquet at the base of the monument to workers killed during antigovernment riots in 1970, he quietly thanked his supporters for coming and drove away...
...daily reports could have been read by Nazi authorities, they are necessarily devoid of comments about jackboot cruelty or speculations about the neighboring death camp of Chelmno, less than an hour's drive away. But an undertow of agony tugs at the facts. That road, praised as "a monument to the ghetto's vitality," leads to a cemetery where more than 43,000 inmates, many of them children, will end their stay. Potato peels are a prized dinner item. Notes of suicides bracket a "highly successful symphony concert at the House of Culture...
...music, which in the play served only as an allusive ostinato, seizes center screen with significant excerpts from four Mozart operas, several concerti and the Requiem. As seen through the dealer's eye of the movie camera, Salieri looks like a sullen midget next to a Mozart monument; he is Judas to Mozart's Jesus, James Earl Ray to his Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Uecker to his Babe Ruth. Explains Shaffer: "Salieri had to give way just a bit to make room for the glory and wonder of his victim's achievement...