Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Afterwards, deliberation once more gave way to ceremony. Kennedy received the Paris diplomatic corps, then De Gaulle escorted Kennedy on the day's second motorcade?to the Arc de Triomphe, where the President laid a wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier...
Overshadowing the façade was the high dome, 8,909,200 lbs. of cast-iron ribs and plates so big at the bottom perimeter that an arc of it overhung the main wall-an engineering oddity concealed by the pediment topping the colonnade in front of the wall. Some critics prized this set-out look of the dome for the "cascade" effect it gave to a viewer standing close and looking sharply up. Classicists, however objected that the style varied too much from Old World models, whose domes are, set well back so that walls and roof can buttress...
Three nights after the kidnaping, Raymond waited nervously in a dark alleyway near the Arc de Triomphe. Eric's father approached, carrying a satchel containing $100,000 in small bills. When he heard the password, "Keep the key," he dropped the satchel, turning just in time to catch a glimpse of Raymond as he made off. Next morning, young Eric was found, unharmed, in front of a cafe near home...
...meat baron. When a careless worker falls into the meat machinery at Mauler's plant, he is tinned with the product. This sort of thing makes Brecht's caricature of capitalists both hopelessly dated and immensely funny to a modern American audience. Joan Dark (Jeanne d'Arc), the girl who stands up to Mauler, is a parody figure mostly modeled on Shaw's Major Barbara-a Salvation Army-type lassie who belongs to an evangelical group called "The Black Straw Hats." She tries to soften Mauler's heart toward the workers' plight, while...
...time passed, the park became a mishmash of changing tastes: there were Roman gods, a Joan of Arc, a majestically cloaked Saint-Gaudens Pilgrim, a copy of Rodin's naked Thinker. Then in 1913 the wealthy Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel, daughter of a Philadelphia iron tycoon, left in her will a trust fund to be used to buy "statuary emblematical of the history of America." Emblem No 1 was a sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided...