Word: adorning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While home in Arizona earlier this month, I was able to witness the royal send-off granted the state's favorite son, former Senator and Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Goldwater certainly received his share of praise while alive. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and saw his name adorn an airport terminal, a high school and numerous other landmarks around Arizona. He was also credited with planting the seeds of a conservative movement that would eventually produce the Reagan Revolution and the Republican take-over of Congress. Conservative columnist George Will was quoted as saying that...
...jewels students collect asundergraduates--be they top grades or leadershippositions--will not just adorn their resumes. Manystudents who succeed in the recruiting processlater compete for other prized offers, this timefrom top business schools...
Perhaps the print of Fritzner's painting should have been removed long ago because a five dollar poster among the many valuable portraits of dead white men that adorn the Lowell House dining Hall is out of place. But the issue of appropriateness never had the chance to come up, because the print was removed too quickly. Fritzner Alphonse and those who appreciate his art deserve a fair hearing...
...symmetrical antithesis to the Angel Holding the Superscription is the Angel Holding the Crown of Thorns. Though Bernini himself sketched the clay ideas for several of the angels that now adorn the Ponte Sant' Angelo, the marble statues themselves were carved under his direction by his pupil Lazzaro Morelli. Another of the clay sketches for the Tiber River bridge project, the Angel Holding the Tabernacle is an exquisite metaphor in terracotta for the power of divine influence...
...reminded of the words of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." A prominent plaque bearing this caveat should adorn the halls of Washington as a reminder that insidious power can destroy our great institutions, even the presidency. VICTOR E. DELUCIA Valley Village, Calif...