Word: displays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sooner or later, most icons turn up on postage stamps. The Palestinian Authority, seeking a symbol of sovereignty, put Yasser Arafat's hirsute face on a series of stamps. Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service, eager to display American culture, put Mr. Bugs Bunny on a new stamp this week. That's all, folks...
...this culture of greed arose the primal names of American business: Rockefeller (oil), Carnegie and Frick (steel), Vanderbilt (railroads), the Goulds, Astors, Fisks and, towering over them all, the magister ludi of saber-toothed capitalism, J. Pierpont Morgan. After 1870, America lost all its Puritan inhibitions about the gratuitous display of surplus wealth...
...York City's Fifth and Park avenues, which were much satirized. But the red-hot site of Gilded Age extravagance was Newport, Rhode Island, where the very rich congregated in the summer. Here, in what they called with false modesty their "cottages," they engaged in rituals of consumption and display that were so extreme, competitive and self-referential that they eclipsed anything done in private American building before or since. Newport confirms the piercing insight of Henry Adams, lamenting the crassness of his time: "The American wasted more money more recklessly than anyone ever did before; he spent more...
Chan's fans--more than 40 students crammed into the Canaday common room--responded to this obvious display of dorm spirit with boisterous cheers and screams. This study break, said Canaday D Proctor Carter Stewart, was a great success and a bonding opportunity...
...Books on display in Widener's main lobby include a collection of essays titled Anti-Feminism in the Academy, edited by Margaret Higonnet, and No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism in the Universities, by Ellen W. Schrecker...