Word: monticello
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...Monticello is an average U.S. city, populated by people of average earnings, moderate IQ, and substandard life expectancy, but one where life is lived on a hyped-up emotional level that would compare favorably with Leopoldville or Elsinore. Crime, litigation, fraud, false arrest, domestic tragedy and incurable disease are commoner than the common cold. In fact, as Keats said of London, Hell is a city much like Monticello...
...found in the gazetteer (those who confuse it with Thomas Jefferson's home will be very confused indeed), but it can be visited five days a week at 4:30 p.m. E.S.T. on CBS. The network and the ad agency of Benton & Bowles, which hold joint fief over Monticello's doom-prone citizens, regard it with loyal affection: it is the mythical locale of TV's most merciless soap opera. The Edge of Night, the greatest hypnotic to appear since the video tube nudged the U.S. housewife away from radio's Stella Dallas...
...harder Nixon tries to unload Benson, the more the Democrats are determined to keep the Benson burden on Nixon's back. In a speech at Monticello, Iowa last week, Lyndon Johnson reminded his audience that Nixon once called Benson "one of the best Secretaries of Agriculture in our history." Benson's "chief helpers" in aggravating the farm problem, Johnson insisted, were President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon...
...state visit to the U.S. Ingredients : an airport greeting from President Dwight Eisenhower,*quarters at Blair House, a White House dinner party, an address to a joint session of Congress, a white tie dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and a Broadway ticker-tape parade, a visit to Monticello and to the New Salem, Ill. log cabin village where Lincoln lived as a young...
...Gordon Bunshaft, design partner of famed Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, produced a high-efficiency aluminum, glass and steel building, set squarely behind its own private reflecting pool five miles north of downtown Richmond, citadel of the Old Dominion's fanciers of mellow brick, white porticoes and neo-Monticello atmosphere. Reynolds expected furious protests from wave on wave of outraged Virginians. Instead, the distinguished director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Leslie Cheek Jr., told them that whether they knew it or not, their new building was the finest bit of architecture to be erected in Virginia since Thomas Jefferson...