Word: monumentously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken advantage of détente to boost their own defenses, adding that "if the movement from cold war to detente is progress, then let me say we cannot afford much more progress." In Rome he denounced the "prison wall" that separates East and West Germany as the "great monument to Soviet imperialism," and noted that it had been "reinforced at great expense during the last few years, when people in the West thought we had a period of detente." The crudity of the message disturbed Weinberger's European hosts, who believe that detente has produced certain benefits...
...Saint-Gaudens. Cannon on the Common fired a salute. William James, the philosopher, declared that the casualties' common grave "bore witness to the brotherhood of man." Booker T. Washington, who was a seven-year-old on a Virginia plantation when Shaw died, rose to say that the "real monument" to Shaw "is being slowly but safely builded among the lowly...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM is the El Cid of the musical theater. He oversteps bounds, and the audience excuses him because his work is so good. The musical quality of Side by Side compels audiences to overlook the fact that the evening constitutes a self-conceived monument to the artist. There is nothing new or creative in Side by Side, a revue of songs from musicals for which Sondheim wrote lyrics and some of the music, punctuated by explanations and anecdotes slipped in by the show's narrator...
...papers and helped them flee to neutral territories, sometimes only hours before the Germans arrived. Although he saved tens of thousands, Wallenberg could not save himself. He was arrested by the Soviet troops entering Hungary and vanished into another kind of gulag. His fate is unknown today, and his monument is this sadly abbreviated biography...
This small, wrinkled old lady is a living monument to the legacy of World War II. It is difficult for an American to understand the war's impact on the Soviet Union. The "Great Patriotic War" cost the Soviet people twenty million lives and probably twice that number in wounded. During the Nazi blockade, 770,000 people starved to death in Leningrad alone--a figure greater than the total battle casualty count of the United States and Great Britain combined. Because roughly three times more men died in the conflict than women, there currently exists nearly an entire generation...