Word: cupolas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul Revere hooked a wooden codfish above his coppersmith shop. In early Boston, children crowded around on Saturdays in hopes that the gilded Indian gleaming on the Province House cupola would, as superstition had it, shoot his arrow at high noon. In Pennsylvania, a weather vane in the shape of an Indian was meant as an offer of friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle...
Light in the Cupola. Russell and his 18-man team of homily-grits Southerners were not in the least concerned about the slow progress of the civil rights bill. But others were, and against a lowering backdrop of powder-keg Negro restiveness and growing white alarm, a sense of urgency has begun to pervade even the drowsy chamber...
Accordingly, Majority Leader Mansfield has quickened the pace of the six-week-old debate by lengthening sessions, sometimes running them from 10 a.m. until midnight. He was not yet ready to order round-the-clock sessions, but night after soft spring night, a light burned in the cupola of the Capitol to tell the city that the Senate was at work...
...large library with a fireplace. On the third floor are four more bed rooms and two baths. The front steps are flanked by a pair of 40-ft. magnolia trees nearly as old as the house. Out back is a flagstone terrace. On top of the house perches a cupola with a view of the Potomac. The house went on the market a year ago for $325,000, recently came down to around $190,000. Jackie reportedly got it for a few thou sand dollars less. "Let's just say we didn't want to make it difficult...
...capital cities of the U.S. took shape for the 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...