Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viet Nam veteran, I think the winning entry for the Viet Nam memorial is a loser. The proposed monument may satisfy the needs of the Washington Mall but it fails to impart what the war meant to those who fought it. In 1968 newsmagazines printed a photo of a U.S. army tank carrying soldiers wounded in Hue during the Tet offensive. That picture says more about the pain and sacrifice Americans suffered than the proposed "hole in the ground...
...proposed monument to commemorate the Viet Nam War and its veterans looks so peaceful. I suggest one addition: a statue of an American rifleman pointing toward the White House with the inscription NEVER AGAIN WILL SO MANY GIVE SO MUCH FOR SO LITTLE...
...winter fell on Warsaw last week, the honor guard stepped smartly up to Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A crowd of 2,000, including a row of officials, watched in respectful silence as President Henryk Jablonski solemnly placed a wreath at the base of the granite monument. In hundreds of towns and cities throughout the Western world, Armistice Day is observed in much the same fashion. But the Polish ceremony marked a significant break with the Communist past, a symbol of rising patriotism that was finally acknowledged by the government, despite the possibility of a hostile reaction...
...pass by. Flags went to half-staff, and mourning wreaths were placed in the mouths of the four bronze lions which, a few years before, he had sculpted for the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. He was buried in St. Paul's, and his monument bears a stone copy of one of his best-known paintings, an image recognizable to thousands of people who probably could not have identified a Turner, a Blake or even a Constable: The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner, a grief-stricken collie resting its head on its master...
...more outrageous. What are to us abstract ideas, things for conversation, are the absolute truths in Napoleon. First, it is a panegyric to the transcendent man, he who honestly commands fate rather than obeys it. Yet Napoleon goes still farther and develops into a four-and-a-half hour monument to nationalism--that thoroughly obscene word--and concludes in a sweeping millenial vision. All France will find redemption in this one, unlikely man. It smell of wild irrationality, even fascism. How could anyone believe...