Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Notes on a September morning: Up in the dark out in the Maryland suburbs. Air crisp, sliver of a moon still high. Roar of the Potomac River's great falls from over the hill. George Washington used to tarry there. Headed down the valley to breakfast with Jimmy Carter, 189 years after George, but land still beautiful in first light Mist rising over water. Sun burnishing the East. Past Teddy Roosevelt's hiking island, Lyndon Johnson's memorial pine thicket, John Kennedy's flame. Glorious city ahead in sparkling dawn. Everything looks, feels better with President...
America's contribution to the language of modern architecture has been immense. But little sign of that could be seen in its capital, Washington. Where were the modern designs to rival the dominant idioms of 18th century Georgian and 19th century Beaux-Arts by the Potomac? There was not much to see. The preferred manner, in a low-horizon city dominated by L'Enfant's neoclassical plan, was Beaux-Arts thinly covered with a "modernist" veneer: the cake minus the icing. From the postwar office blocks to the alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center...
...again embattled, not on the high seas but in the landlocked halls of Congress and the Washington bureaucracy. Long confined inside the Pentagon and waged with confidential memos, this acrimonious fight has now burst into the open. It is perhaps the nastiest battle on the banks of the Potomac in decades. Caught squarely in the middle of it is the only Annapolis graduate ever to reach the White House, Jimmy Carter, whose budget restrictions triggered the fight but who recently told a Navy audience: "I'm still one of you." And as a key House committee voted last week...
...hands of the Robert E. Lee family and later purchased by the Ludwig-controlled American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Said Ludwig at the ceremony: "I think the people of Virginia are entitled to one of the nicest possible parks in the United States. It is close to the Potomac, and it is close to the seat of some of our troubles and some of the action." End of speech...
...poor, you have no business in Washington." So said snippy Journalist Anne Royall in the early 19th century. Her observation is hardly less true today. Only now it must be added that anyone with business in Washington faces little risk of poverty. The great company town on the Potomac is booming. Humorist Russell Baker may garnish the truth when he writes of suburban lawns "green with money." And admittedly not everybody rushed to get at the $13,000 Chinese vases when the new Neiman-Marcus store opened last November. But by the most telling measure?family income?Washington has fattened...