Word: carillons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft Memorial Foundation offered to erect a monument on the north slope of Capitol Hill-only 600 ft. from the chamber of the U.S. Senate in which Taft served for 14 years. The monument: a slim, shafted marble tower, 100 ft. high, with a carillon of 25 bells and a relief sculpture of the Senator (see cut). The cost (about $1,000,000) would be financed by public donations, and 63 Senators from both parties joined in sponsoring the enabling bill. Wrote the foundation's chairman, ex-President Herbert Hoover: the Taft monument would commemorate "the simplicity and greatness...
...cars, 100 air-conditioned stores, which Puckett estimates will gross $2,000,000 a week. Added attractions: an auditorium seating 500 (for auto shows, square dances, etc.), two six-storied office buildings (one for doctors and dentists), several restaurants, a "Kiddieland," an outdoor ice-skating rink, bowling alleys, a carillon...
Dumb Disciples. For the rest, there are serious critiques of Flaubert, Peacock, Leopardi, and personal reminiscences of James Joyce, Franz Kafka. Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy and Oscar Wilde. This section is called Glimpses of Greatness, and Connolly aptly describes it as "a carillon of memories covering a recurring situation, the Maestro in all his simplicity and wisdom garrulously confronting his treacherous dumb disciple...
Governor Dan Thornton put out a proclamation, and Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton called for "a pilgrimage in spirit to the Mount of the Holy Cross." On the City Hall carillon, Faith of Our Fathers and other suitable anthems were played. The Rocky Mountain News wrote: "The hand of the Creator wrinkled the brow of this majestic peak in a symmetrical cruciform that cradles the ice and snow of ages . . ." An apologetic mountaineer heard the bells, read the paper, and called the News to say that something had been overlooked. The left arm cross has been crumbling away from...
...forced to rectify the error. The President, in a return letter, said: "I am not in the least perturbed about the name of the bells because, strictly between ourselves, I should much prefer to have a puppy-dog or a baby named after me than one of those carillon effects that is never quite in tune and which goes off at all hours of the day and night! At least one can give paragoric to a puppy or a baby...