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...alone. Look here. Here are my books, my Demosthenes, my garden. I have lived my life and I can confide to you what now is my one principle: one must never tell what one feels, knows or sees. That is why I am not going to talk under the cupola of the Academy. That is why I shall continue to commune with myself in silence. In my day the journalists did the talking for the public. These days the public talks for the journalists...
...simplicity" must never mean discomfort. Aesthetically the book parallels the current literary renaissance of early America. If widely read, it should speed the arrival, in districts beyond New England, Philadelphia and Baltimore, of styles in architecture and decoration which, once indigenous, were successively entombed by the brownstone, red-plush, cupola, stucco, Frank Lloyd Wright and Grand Rapids eras...
Among those present at the game from realms of sport and society were certain members of the Revere Beach Fire Department to whom the Jampoon management had given free tickets. These made a merry scene with their flaming helmets and firey hose. The belle of the party was Miss Cupola of Mt. Auburn Street who was surrounded by a ring of spectators at all times...
This tall temple with the grotesque faces of conventionalized art at its four corners presents one entirely new feature in Maya architecture. This is a round cupola or small tower, which rises from the roof of the temple proper, itself set upon a pyramidal mound of five terraces ascended by a wide stairway. The cupola enhances the effect of height and grandeur...
...whoop of joy which Dr. Spinden let out when he found this cupola was good to hear. We had been clearing brush and trees a foot in diamter from the terraces and stairway for several hours. At the risk of a dangerous cave-in he climbed to the top of the temple, where the brush and cactus were so thick that he had hacked for fifteen or twenty minutes before he could discern the outline of the cupoia. I believe his elation did much to convince the Indians helping as that we were not hunting for gold as their kind...