Word: corinthians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon. Reporters, photographers and the umbilical-twined television crews crept into their high blinds. Security guards, more than 5,000 of them, roamed through the area. Agents eyed windows to make sure they were shut in accordance with instructions is sued days before. From rooftops, from dark corners, behind Corinthian columns, Secret Service men with guns and electronic gadgetry and TV scanners gazed at the growing throngs. They guarded the speaker's stand in the east plaza of the Capitol, where armor plate braced the floor and 1½-in.-thick bullet proof glass formed a waist-high railing...
...immediately comes upon the wreckage of World War II. A few blocks across from Checkpoint Charlie is Akademieplatz, a mute monument to the East Berlin failure to reconstruct. Grass is pushing its way through the paving of a square, surrounded by once majestic marble Academy buildings with Corinthian columns. Grotesquely shattered marble figures now lie around the base of the buildings, crumbled columns are scattered on the ground, and the burned and sagging roof has rotted to reveal only its steel skeleton and the wreckage inside...
...Sculls, in most respects a normal, unpretentious, upper middle-class American family, live with Pop, sleep with it, eat with it, relax with it, and love it. They are not, however, bitter cultural rebels, ready to dynamite the Corinthian columns of the Met. At least Met Director James Rorimer does not think so. He enjoys going to the Sculls' for dinner and finding out how avant a garde...
...Corinthian Pillars. The McDonnells were Roman Catholic; as Methodist-born Henry came courting, he decided to adopt their faith. No less a personage than Msgr. (now Bishop) Fulton J. Sheen gave him instructions, and married them in Southampton on July...
Henry and Anne settled into their roles as well-gilded Corinthian pillars of U.S. society, but as time went on, the tension between Henry's extrovert, huggy-bear conviviality and Anne's cool, tight-lipped dignity became more and more obtrusive...