Word: courtyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orchestra pit, swinging their horns like battle-axes. Then the woodwinds, a double-bass player and even the first violins joined in, tearing furiously into the astonished audience in pursuit of hecklers' blood. When the police arrived, chairs were flying through the air across the courtyard of Venice's Palazzo Ducale. It took a frantic half hour to drag all the punch-drunk musicologists out into St. Mark's Square for a cooling breath...
...path through a small guard of young Buddhist monks. The troopers had a list, and each monk on the list was considered to be a "Communist in disguise." On the temple's second floor, one monk tried to resist and was thrown bodily from a balcony to the courtyard 20 ft. below. Other monks and nuns were routed from behind a flimsy barricade of wooden benches and forced outside by tear gas and gunshots...
...down in a Catholic school playground and set herself on fire. Less than 24 hours later, back in Hué, a 71-year-old monk announced over the Tudam Pagoda loudspeaker that he was going to kill himself, then burned himself to death in the pagoda's courtyard...
...Moscow, Envoy Harriman operated smoothly out of a tiny improvised office facing the courtyard on the ninth floor of the U.S. embassy. The only extra furnishings were a portrait of George Washington and two extra chairs, one of which was shoved into the open doorway by his secretary. Since the office is usually a waiting room, many a surprised visitor tried to vault the chair. During the mornings...
Luxurious Elegance. Cars park in the concrete forest, eliminating the need for an outside parking lot that can disfigure any building. The slab itself has two rectangular holes cut into it, one for beauty, the other for function. The first creates a courtyard that gives the feeling of luxurious elegance. The second surrounds a two-story steel and concrete laboratory, which, aside from connecting doors, is structurally not a part of the slab. It rests on the ground-a building within a building, so subtly encased that it in no way intrudes on the overall design...