Word: ornamental
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...city rebuilt itself in an original and handsome style that became one of its proud distinctions. Chicago may have been Sandburg's "Hog Butcher," but there was also the Chicago school of architecture. None of the city's architects surpassed Louis Sullivan, whose buildings combined elegant ornament with a functional austerity that was to influence the imaginations of great 20th century builders like Frank Lloyd Wright...
...whole city a festival." The fiesta-fond Italians took him at his word, celebrating Menotti's 60th birthday with brass bands, torchlight processions and 2,000 signed testimonials of affection. Awakened by a rendition of his own Triple Concerto, the composer sniffled: "Before this I felt like an ornament. Now I feel like a household utensil, and it's wonderful...
Whatever the faults of the U.S. educational system, it also has its glories. It made possible the miracles of modern technology and trained the scientists who sent man to the moon. For more students than any other nation can claim, it has provided the true Aristotelian education?"an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity." But the system seems out of kilter with reality. What can be done about it? Colleges and students must realize that education is something entirely apart from insurance for a status job. This is particularly true of the liberal arts, which in their proper...
...which probably grew out of his regular disappointments in love and his otherwise suppressed resentment of women who had hurt him, was the "heart thief," depicted hanging from a gallows tree and clutching a human heart. The motif so obsessed him that he even worked it into a Christmas ornament of a masked dancer meant to be hung from a tree...
...Enough. Hitler's designs are like his speeches: huge, hammeringly repetitious, banal, but filled with an inescapable, machine-like force. He had no perceptible sense of proportion, interval, space or even ornament. But he did know that very big buildings tend to make very big impressions on people. And that was enough...