Word: patios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dawn of the Spanish Renaissance, an elaborately carved and colonnaded patio was the pet and pride of Don Pedro Fajardo, first Marquis of Vélez and fifth governor of the Kingdom of Murcia. At the turn of the 20th century, the patio became the proud possession of Financial Baron George Blumenthal, onetime president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When his Park Avenue mansion was razed in 1945, the 2,000 numbered marble blocks of the patio were tucked away in the Met's attic. Last week its pearly facades were dedicated as part of the museum...
When such finishing touches as a red marble floor are installed, the two-story interior patio will open to the public this fall, serving as a skylit forecourt to the new Thomas J. Watson art library and a gateway to the Renaissance galleries. To enhance the outdoorsy effect, Met Director James Rorimer promises that the thermostats will be set a few degrees below the rest of the museum...
When the Marquis of Vélez, a man of magnificence, brought in a handful of Italian stonemasons to work on his patio, he was bringing the Renaissance to the feudal, long-Moorish plains of Andalusia. He was only 28 when he ordered the work begun in 1506, but the marquis was a Latin scholar and an eager follower of Columbus' early voyages to the "Western antipodes." His patronage made the patio a triumph of transition from darkness to light...
...hour), but it is vital that you refer to it as a chopper. Go to the ball games in Chavez Ravine, but leave before the seventh inning. Get a pool table, and don't give a party unless you have a mahogany keg on the patio with draft Michelob. Get a Yorkshire terrier. Learn to think. Stay out of toreador pants and stretch pants; wear Jax slacks...
...Like all institutions, it stood in danger of succumbing to the temptations of complacency. But Otis Chandler, 36, the Times's new publisher and the colonel's great-grandson, is determined to keep the Times as viable as the burgeoning community it patrols. The disjointed collection of patio grills and palm-fringed superhighways is not a newspaper-reading community; recent mergers have reduced its newspaper census from four to two. But the Times remains a local necessity. In Chandler's three years at the top, he has raised the editorial budget by 60%; an expanded news staff...