Word: interior
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...crude and misleading to say that Jefferson's ideas about building illustrate the ideas of the American Constitution. But they certainly grew from the same origin -- the secular humanism that, despite the gaudy bleatings of today's religious right, was their common moral root. Thus the calm, measured, lucid interior of Jefferson's Rotunda, the focus of his "academical village" (the University of Virginia), declares the value of reason and persuades us that humane analysis, not blind faith, is the true measure of a decent society. We sentimentalize Jefferson and his colleagues if we suppose they were not elitists...
...there. The Constitution's inventors could not have produced so durable a document without a vision of the person to whom the laws and stipulations were directed. Before the season dissipates, look at the words one more time. Read them not as rules of the game but as the interior ruminations of a character, a hero, who in some strange conflicted combination of exultation and self-restraint has, for 200 years, found a way to live a life. What character? What life...
...should not have included James Watt in your rogues' gallery of Reagan Administration officials who faced allegations of questionable activities. The former Secretary of the Interior was guilty of nothing more than political naivete...
...rather formal housing estate near the Tiergarten, West Berlin's big central park. The main facade, an outthrust white shield, could be the refurbished fragment of an ancient Roman circus. But in pure postmodern fashion, the metaphors are freely mixed: facing the long central lawn on the interior is a handsome pair of neo-medieval towers in red brick, and windows copied, it seems, from a 19th century factory...
...Those who insist on going ahead, he adds, share one characteristic: fury. "They are so angry," says Perry. "One woman told me, 'At least in a rape, once it's done, it's done. But this goes on forever.' " That indignation is shared by a 26-year-old Chicago interior designer, who is suing her former lover in Cook County Circuit Court. Despite the potential publicity and embarrassment, she says, "I started this, and I'm going to finish...