Word: monticello
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...architects were beginning to influence American architecture. During the building boom that followed World War II, I looked forward to seeing homes and office buildings that would excel the architecture of previous eras. I was disappointed. Few American buildings in the past 40 years have equaled the beauty of Monticello, the White House, the Chrysler Building, or even the average American home built prior to the war. Perhaps next year's Aspen conference on design should look to the Greek's Parthenon as a guide to "the future...
...Monticello, Minn...
...decision partly on the ground that a dozen years of nonrecognition had failed to alter either the internal or the foreign policies of the Soviet Union. Hostility having failed, the U.S. was ready to try a dose of friendship. The new American embassy was to be modeled on Monticello. "I like the idea of planting Thomas Jefferson in Moscow," said F.D.R. The first U.S. Ambassador, William Bullitt, told the President, "Our representatives in the Soviet Union today can have a really immense influence...
...also sought refuge in Europe, where he lived with his beautiful black mistress and continued his mischief-making for another 43 years. A fascinating, tragic figure, Jefferson became an inspiration to generations of novelists, poets and composers. Sir Walter Scott used him as the hero of Monticello, and after one apparently jolly dinner at Jefferson's Italian villa, Shelley was moved to write...
Perhaps some ancient ghost of feudalism, a deep, fundamental fear of dependence and submission, spooked around the edges of the American's pride of ownership: this place is mine. The proto type of Mr. Blandings' dream house was Monticello, that cool Palladian vision built by the American prince of the Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson...