Word: neoclassicism
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Grave & Gay. Nature was kind and the day bloomed sunny and unseasonably balmy. The ceremony itself was brief and moving. There were some memorable sights on the neoclassic stand in front of the Capitol: Eisenhower's solemn demeanor as he repeated the 41 words which elevated him to the...
When John D. Rockefeller Jr. was ready to build Rockefeller Center, Harrison had definitely enlisted in the camp of modern architecture and was ready to fight for it. He was sure he was on the winning side. Gothic and neoclassic skyscrapers were dying out in Manhattan; Hood had just designed...
Filmed among the neoclassic marble buildings built by Mussolini for a world's fair that never came off, Nerone centers on two sightseeing U.S. sailors who are knocked unconscious by thugs, carried back to a dream world of Nero's Rome. For the rest of the picture they...
Corpse on the Linoleum. All during his adolescence Beaton kept snapping Kodak pictures of his Mummie and his two sisters. At Harrow, he found a willing subject in a schoolmate, and posed him, early one morning, half nude in the headmaster's garden. The headmaster's wife witnessed...
A Lean Indian. The road from Mitchell, S. Dak. to national fame led through Chicago and Paris. In Chicago he attended the Art Institute, worked part time as an apprentice in a local sculptor's studio. The neoclassic splendor of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, with...