Word: corinthians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part when a public building was something with a cupola and plenty of columns. New York's state capitol is a monument to the architectural style that might be called Ugly American-a granite mishmash of Second Empire, Francis I and Romanesque, with Doric columns, Corinthian columns, tile roofs, slate roofs, dormers, chimneys and rusticated stone work. The city it dominates is appropriately dismal. But last week plans were unveiled that will make Albany, in the words of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, "the most beautiful capital city in the United States...
...Place de la Concorde now gleams a pale ochre; the massive Corinthian columns of the Madeleine glow a soft pink; the Louvre no longer tattles of neglect. Years of recorded tourist history ("Ronald loves Irma," "Vincenza e Giorgio," "Stan from Council Bluffs. 82nd Airborne. 1945"). scribbled in the stubborn grime, is being erased by a soap that removes dirt but leaves a protective mineral covering on the stone. More than 2.300 buildings and monuments have been washed...
There, behind its grey stone walls and Corinthian columns, the New York Stock Exchange was shuddering through its worst week since June...
...wide avenues and the Capitol plaza bristled with tens of thousands of onlookers in bright stocking caps, fur coats and warm blankets as protection against the 20° temperature. The big inaugural platform on the steps of the Capitol's east portico was studded with eight white Corinthian columns matching those of the Capitol itself. U.S. flags whipped in the stiff wind above the great marble office buildings and the Library of Congress...
...century work called The Acts of Paul and Thecla, he was "a sturdy little balding, bowlegged man, with meeting eyebrows and a somewhat hooked nose; full of grace; for sometimes he appeared like a man and sometimes he had the face of an angel." Detractors in the Corinthian church called "his bodily presence . . . weak, his speech contemptible," and Paul himself acknowledges that he is "rude in speech, yet not in knowledge." Paul's letters give the best evidence of how he must have preached (the direct quotes attributed to him in Acts were, according to the custom...