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An American Parthenon? Our own Pantheon? Searching history for the best way to commemorate: September 11.
"The time is upon us to build our own Parthenon," prominent art historian Joan Breton Connelly recently suggested in a Wall Street Journal commentary. She referred to the great temple of Athena erected as a monument to the triumphant recovery of Athens from the devastation wrought by Persian invaders in 479 B.C. In the wake of the terrorist atrocities of September 11, Connelly observed, a similarly monumental gesture would seem to be in order.
But what does it mean to build a twenty-first-century Parthenon? Do you hire an architect or sculptor who operates on the assumption that modern times demand uniquely modern solutions? Or do you seek out designers who rely ...
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