Word: cheeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election, they revert to their usual status. To signify this fact, the cardinals tug heavy silken cords to drop the baldachin that hangs over each chair, leaving only the new Pope's throne covered. As the cardinals line up to kiss the Pope's slipper, knee and cheek, he faces for the first time the responsibilities that Monsignor Bacci defined...
...denounced the Supreme Court opinion but also decided "to defer for the present" a plan to reopen only those classes to which Negroes have not been admitted by court order. In Norfolk, salted with Northerners and heavily dependent on the big U.S. Navy base for business, the tongue-in-cheek city council took the next step prescribed by Virginia's massive resistance laws, asked Almond to reopen the schools on a segregated basis. Almond ignored the petition; it was plainly an effort to make him directly responsible for defying court orders. ¶In Little Rock deputy U.S. marshals fanned...
...private reflecting pool five miles north of downtown Richmond, citadel of the Old Dominion's fanciers of mellow brick, white porticoes and neo-Monticello atmosphere. Reynolds expected furious protests from wave on wave of outraged Virginians. Instead, the distinguished director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Leslie Cheek Jr., told them that whether they knew it or not, their new building was the finest bit of architecture to be erected in Virginia since Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia...
...Director Cheek, a Tennessee-born architectural buff with a graduate degree from Yale ('35), was prepared to prove his point. He asked experts to pick the "Twelve Best Buildings in the Old Dominion since 1776." Then he sent pictures of these buildings and the Reynolds building to 13 top architectural deans, critics and architects for comment. Only one quarreled with his judgment that Reynolds was "the best since Jefferson." Thundered Frank Lloyd Wright, who concedes excellence to few other men: "If anything less Virginian could be imagined...
Final test for Director Cheek came when a black-tie cross section of Virginia's first families turned up at the museum, inspected models of other Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings (Lever House, U.S. Air Force Academy), then went by bus to see the new Reynolds building in full scale. Even with the three-story office building's satiny aluminum trim, Virginians found much that was familiar. The courtyard was paved with familiar red brick, and the moon shone down on a five-jet fountain, holly bushes and a 40-ft. magnolia tree. But inside they found...