Complete the account of commemoration.
A monument asserts that a person or event deserves ______ commemoration in a public place. A work that commemorates while refusing that grammar is a ______-monument. The Harburg column was lowered as visitors ______ it. Lin's memorial is cut into the ______ rather than raised above it.
Word bank: permanent · counter · signed · earth · public · temporary
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- The first blank is the property that makes monuments contested.
- The third blank is what the public did to the Harburg column.
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A monument asserts that a person or event deserves permanent commemoration in a public place. A work that commemorates while refusing that grammar is a counter-monument. The Harburg column was lowered as visitors signed it. Lin's memorial is cut into the earth rather than raised above it.
The first blank is the source of the whole difficulty. Permanence is what a monument is for and it is also why a monument outlives the agreement that produced it, which makes the disputes a predictable behaviour of the form rather than a modern aberration.
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