Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother's idea," says Lambert, "was that this building should not only be an architectural landmark, but a cultural center as well." Though the Baroness Lambert died before it was completed, many of the art works are her choices. After S.O.M. designed interiors to enhance the paintings and sculptures, Bunshaft scurried about Europe in search of new acquisitions. From modest lithographs in the stenographers' offices to a massive Henry Moore sculpture in front of the bank, the collection now amounts to that of a middle-sized museum...
PEYTON PLACE (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A landmark: Episode...
...heady early days of Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, two young Southern liberals came together in Washington and discovered the first bond of friendship. One went on to carve out a brilliant career in politics; the other rose to the top of the legal profession and successfully argued two landmark cases in U.S, criminal...
...Aisley Maude . . . woke one morning, made my usual morning adjustment to God, with my Christian faith set strongly behind me, and my human limitation protecting me from too obliterating a vision, only to find that the picture was blurred, that God had moved, that the steadfast landmark, feature of all my maps, routes, views, references, had become an unidentifiable shadow. Now, if you are photographing an ancient monument of stone, and the stone moves and the photograph is blurred, perhaps it is wise to tell...
...chief legal officer for the N.A.A.C.P., Marshall became a national figure in 1954 when he successfully argued the landmark school-desegregation case of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education before the Supreme Court. In all, he argued 32 civil rights cases before the high court, won 29 of them. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Marshall to a lifetime job on the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals (New York, Connecticut and Vermont). After almost a year's delay because of the objections of Southern Senators, the Senate finally confirmed Marshall's appointment...