Word: monolithic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brink of a 2,000 foot precipice teetered, last week, the largest monolith of flawless Carrara marble ever quarried...
...hundred medium-sized motor cars are less ponderous than its weight of 260 tons. Taller than a five story house (55 feet), the single shaft of stone is too large to be carried by any railway car in Italy. Yet last week Signer Benito Mussolini commanded that the monolith be moved to Rome, there to become "The Mussolini Monument." How to obey...
Last week the monolith was being let down the mountain, inch by inch, with nervous precaution, lest a jolt or jar should crack the flawless stone. Pessimists predicted that any ship bearing it would be weighted down so much as to stick in the shallow Tiber. But optimists assumed that "Benito will find...
...Monolith, Calif...
...soon as it is possible the CRIMSON will publish a collection of opinions of Harvard graduates and of architects of creditable standing on the proposed monolith. These will be offered as expressions of sane thinking men with real and valid interest in Harvard and in art. From them far better than from any group of casual undergraduates can come the proper criticism of the chapel. Until it is possible thus to reveal a definitely constructive criticism of the idea of the chapel and the form in which that idea is now expressed the CRIMSON sees no cogent reason for voicing...