Word: porticoes
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Then Harry Truman rode in glory through the thunder of applause to the White House.* From the north portico, he told the cheering crowd: "It is overwhelming. It makes a man study and wonder whether he is worthy of the confidence, worthy of the responsibility which has been thrust upon...
...Reinhardt's old Faust scenery had been ripped off the open stage of the Archbishop's riding school behind Salzburg's Festspielhaus. In its place workers had put up a simple Ionic-columned portico for this year's big show: an ambitious production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice by ambitious Conductor Herbert von Karajan (TIME...
...Adding a balcony to the south portico...
...President then showed the newsmen some photographs which convincingly demonstrated that the long awnings previously used on the portico spoiled the classic proportions of its columns. The portico, he said, was designed by Thomas Jefferson, and it was intended to have such a balcony, because Jefferson had designed several other mansions which were finally completed with balconies...
...Soviet press dutifully tuned up on variations of the Zhdanov theme. Krokodil featured a cartoon showing the bronze horses atop the Bolshoi Theater's portico fleeing in all directions from the strains of Muradeli's opera, Great Friendship...