Word: acadia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...list of good works is dizzying: the 200-in. Mount Palomar telescope, probing the lightyears; Nobel Prizewinner Niels Bohr's atomic research projects in Copenhagen; vast national parks-Wyoming's Jackson Hole, the Virgin Islands National Park, Maine's Acadia National Park; Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; the site of the United Nations; the restored Reims Cathedral; and the rebuilt Stoa of Attalus in Athens. Colonial Williamsburg rose from the American past, and Rockefeller Center pointed to the American future (and changed the New York skyline). Schools, from Louvain to Tokyo and from Harvard...