Word: spire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With the ostentatious Kennedy memorial in Washington [Sept. 20] blighting the hallowed Lincoln and Jefferson monuments, let's call a halt to this pharaoh-like trend. With L.B.J.'s marble spread in Texas, and that 1,500-ft. spire Nixon is probably planning for San Clemente, this self-memorialization indulgence is an ominous one. In our democracy, historic perspective delegates memorialization to posterity, not to the whims and vanities of self-aggrandizement...
...view of many Americans, the awesome edifice of modern technology has become more a millstone than a spire. And the internal-combustion engine, which propelled an adoring U.S. public to the forefront of the 20th century, has become the critics' primary target. They indict it for polluting the air and disturbing the peace. The fuel that it burns has presented Texas oil barons and Middle Eastern potentates with generous profits, but there is growing public pressure for some alternative kind of engine...
...Sato's dream, as he expressed it in a speech two weeks ago, is to make the 1970s "an era when Japan's na tional power will carry unprecedented weight in world affairs." Japan should be a "content but not arrogant" coun try, he said, whose example would in spire "the whole world to agree that the human race is far richer for Ja pan's existence." Whether Japan can serve as a model for the rest of the world, or even the rest of Asia, is, how ever, doubtful. In climate, in resources, but above all, in the will...