Word: monumentalized
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...would contain a restaurant and ballroom and be surmounted by a gigantic statue of King Louis XV. The proposal was rejected, as were others to construct a white marble obelisk or an enormous sundial there. It was Napoleon who conceived the massive Arc de Triomphe in 1806 as a monument to the heroes of the French victory at Marengo. The arch was completed 30 years later during the reign of Louis-Philippe, and the place was laid out by Haussmann...
Theatrics of Neatness. Who else has a switch on his terrace that, at the flick of a whim, causes a fountain to spurt 120 feet into the air from the center of a private lake? Johnson's house is a monument to the theatrics of neatness: only a bachelor could sustain such stark elegance at this pitch of obsession-one three-year-old child could reduce it all to chaos in ten minutes. It is perhaps the expression of a dilettante-in the classic sense of the word, a lover of the fine arts. It does need money...
Reading years of Triumph, I find Frost's image not so much profaned, or de-popularized. It was, for the reader, simply confused. The Thompson biography approaches Frost not with the reverence that one might treat a national monument but with the candor and objectivity that a literary topic merits. In 1939 Frost invited Lawrence Thompson, then curator of books at Princeton, to be his official biographer. Frost died in 1963 and the next year Thompson published Selected Letters in which it begins to be clear that the feelings between Frost and Thompson were not all pure affection and admiration...
After nearly two decades of his rule, Egypt is something less than a monument to enlightened rule. By 1980, because of a scarcely controllable population explosion, there will be 50 million Egyptians; yet the country today lacks the industrial base to support half that population. "This people is today no less poor than in Farouk's days," notes Israel's Deputy Premier Allon, "and some say it is even poorer." Not until the interminable drain of the war with Israel has been stanched is the country likely to emerge from the backwardness that persisted under Nasser. "If it does," writes...
Papanek said in defense of present Indonesian policy that reversal of Sukarno's extravagant monument-building program-in combination with a resumption of large-scale American aid-has brought about significant economic improvement...