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With its slim pillars and airy grillwork, the house rises coolly from the hot, harsh Indian landscape. Inside, a many-plumed fountain plays in the lofty reception hall, whose interior walls, repeating the grille motif, rise majestically to the shallow, ruler-straight roof. A sculpturally handsome staircase spirals upward to the private quarters, which are ranged around the two-story-high central hall. The clean, modified-Mogul lines of Roosevelt House reveal the fine hand of Architect Edward D. Stone, whose U.S. embassy chancery in New Delhi (TIME, Jan. 12, 1959) established the grille as an adornment of contemporary architecture...
...jiggy tunes"-the sentimental lyrics of late Victorian Christianity, with their self-directed emphasis upon individual salvation, and their grim and hypocritical portrayal of man's sinfulness. Most clergymen today wince at the thought of having to lead their faithful in Rock of Ages ("Foul, I to the fountain fly/ Wash me, Saviour, or I die") or Mrs. C. F. Alexander's all too vivid hymn entitled The Circumcision...
...Sensational Buy in Rome!'' cried the quarter-page ad in Rome's Daily American. "Trevi Palace for Sale." Under a picture of the fountain of Trevi (which was not on sale) were spelled out the palace's more obvious assets: "Invaluable Publicity, Central Heating, Plenty of Water...
...palace itself, properly known as the Palazzo Poli, holds no art treasures; but its south side forms a backdrop for Trevi fountain, conceived in 1630 by Architect Giovanni Bernini, and built more than 100 years later, chiefly by Nicola Salvi. Hollywood added to the fountain's fame with its Three Coins in the Fountain, and Rome's moviemakers did their bit by dunking Anita Ekberg in its great marble basin for a high-voltage, low-décolletage scene in La Dolce Vita...
...days to match the price and retain control of what the official statement called "one of the most significant expressions of the Roman Baroque period." And no matter who gets the palace, the city of Rome will keep the coins that travelers toss over their shoulders into the fountain to assure themselves of a return trip...