Word: adornment
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...Leona Helmsley. Thanks to the persistent pleas of nine-year-old New Yorker Mallory Blair Greitzer, the Empire State Building's overseer has agreed to bathe the skyscraper in blue and white on Dec. 23 to mark the first night of Hanukkah. The usual red and green that adorn the spire during the Christmas season will return the next evening...
While it is true that for many Americans, Christmas is not a particularly religious time, and it is true that Harvard's houses go through pains to make the Christmas trees that adorn them seem secular (there are no crosses on the trees or nativity scenes beneath them), it is equally true that for many in America and for even more, Proportionately, at Harvard, Christmas is not a part of their family's or their religion's collective set of experiences and traditions...
...tribute that the co-founder of this magazine would have relished. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of his birth next year, Henry R. Luce will be featured on a postage stamp. His iron-jawed visage, so familiar to those of us at TIME, will adorn No. 57 of the Postal Service's ongoing Great Americans series, honoring men and women who have helped shape the nation's history. "Henry Luce set the standard by which publications are judged," says Postmaster General Marvin Runyon. "His passionate belief in the importance and power of the written word and his unmatched devotion...
...only member of the English and American Literature and Language Department to adorn her office walls with pictures of Sandra Bernhard and Madonna...
...those who live there, Bridgeport is a close-knit working-class neighborhood redolent of the 1950s. Plaster madonnas adorn people's front lawns, plastic Easter bunnies perch in picture windows at this time of year, and on Sundays families attend Mass at the Irish, Italian and Croatian churches where their grandparents were married. Bridgeport is a place where one can still see precinct captains and aldermen of the 11th Ward drinking at Schaller's Pump, and where sauerkraut soup is still served at a diner not far from the home of Chicago's legendary Boss, Richard J. Daley...