Word: monolithic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nightclubs met the first milkman in the streets. The two scholars were equipped with a pink parasol and a walkie-talkie. At the foot of the obelisk, Parisian firemen stood ready with a hook & ladder. The younger of the pair, Mario Fabre, climbed to the top of the monolith; the other, François Guinet-Chaplain, established himself at its base. The hours went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick in front of a receiving set which had been set up at the foot of the shaft. From his pocket, Egyptologist...
Vigeland planned his park so that everything leads up to a monolith-a vast pillar with 121 entwined figures, carved out of a single 200-ton piece of granite. My four-year-old boy described it as "a pretend chimney with monkeys." Vigeland put it differently: "The monolith is my religion." Most observers think that he was trying to show humanity struggling upward, but since he never explained, it is also possible that he intended to show humanity losing its grip...
...Nyet, Nyet." Towards Molotov, Jimmy Byrnes's feelings were like those of a man confronted by a two-legged monolith...
...Foreign News. There is no such thing as a wooden monolith. ("Lith" means stone...
...stone tree branches. A bridge over a pool bears 58 bronze figures of rugged toilers. At one corner of the bridge is a 20-ft. dragon clutching a reluctant woman whose bowed face, closely examined, reveals smiling pleasure. Topping the park is a 56-ft. white granite monolith, stone for which was inched through Oslo, halting all traffic, at the rate of a yard a day for one year. Carved upon it now is a writhing mass of intertwined human bodies (see cut, left...