Word: corinthians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam admits to many analogies, but perhaps the most apt is that of Sisyphus, the mythical Corinthian king who was condemned forever to roll uphill a huge stone that constantly rolled back. So it is with the South Vietnamese...
...district was razed. Warehouses were built. By happy circumstance, it was just when New York architects were discovering the possibilities of cast iron in a facade. Today the buildings are cavernous and filthy, half-empty, with successive impastos of paint flaking from their arched windows and delicate, rusting Corinthian capitals. But SoHo is a kind of museum of the style, containing some of the best buildings that were made within that idiom anywhere in the 19th century-strong-boned, forthright in detail, free of pomp and fuss...
...admonition to the Corinthian women, St. Paul was merely applying Jewish practice to new Christian congregations. But in the 19 centuries since, many Christian churches have followed the Pauline exhortation as if it were divine law. Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Anglican Communion and Lutheran churches have until now been especially slow to remove regulations barring women from a full role in the ministry...
...tone of this production is set at the very outset by designer Marsha Eck's pretty picture-frame made of candelabrum-adorned Corinthian pillars, and a foliage-sprouting crosspiece bearing the play's title in flowing letters. The opening mood is buttressed by Conrad Susa's bright E-major fanfares that lead into a section for hidden singers and pastoral woodwinds punctuated by airy strokes on a glockenspiel. And Jane Greenwood, using the late 16th-century as a period, has provided dozens of stunning ruffcollared costumes...
...architect was at least partly conscious of the heritage. He modeled the building after traditional towers and columns, separating it into three discrete sections: base, shaft and capital. Similarly, America's earliest settlers made a conscious effort to tap the main streams of Western architecture. Doric, Ionic and Corinthian pillars grace the front of many New England homes...