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...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...
...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...