Word: obelisk
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...tropical twilight of Ciudad Trujillo, the din of traffic along the sea front had hushed. A convoy of seven limousines drew up at the foot of the obelisk (white and floodlit like the Washington Monument), and from the car with the five-starred gold license plates stepped a beady-eyed little man. Bodyguards with their Tommy guns at the ready followed him to his customary concrete bench against the sea wall. There, opposite the statue of himself and within sight of the monument reared in his honor, His Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor...
...turn of the 19th Century, conversational ease had become a "hallmark of the elite." Tasteful topics must be chosen, e.g.: "The conversation may gradually center on the Egyptian obelisk, or the Tower of London." Some guides printed "model conversations." Example...
Operating, as it must, politically, the University has not and will probably never so much as breathe a word what it would like, by way of a memorial. They will accept anything short of a fifty, foot granite obelisk. But the student body, with a greater potential for self-expression now than ever before, can hardly feel the same way. Nomad organizations and stageless actors cry for an integrated Student Activities Center...
...Washington, likewise, "numberless things are represented, and one interest after the other counts itself in; the great Congressional Library crowns the hill beside the Capitol, the Departments and Institutes cover their acres and square their shoulders, the Obelisk to the memory of Washington climbs still higher; but something is absent more even than these masses are present-till it at last occurs to you that the existence of a religious faith on the part of the people is not even remotely suggested...
...presentation by the Chinese alumni of the University during the tercentenary festivities in the fall of 1936, it was undecided as to its final position and therefore no lasting arrangement was made. Since no more suitable situation has been found in the six year interim the obelisk will remain in the same place on its permanent foundation...