Word: rebuilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through it all, Sculptor Butler had kept remarkably even-tempered, taking his licking for the most part in silence. But at week's end it looked as if he might have the last laugh after all. At London's Tate Gallery, where his rebuilt Prisoner is now protected by extra guards, officials started counting the ballots that 1,009 gallery-goers had cast for the popular favorite among the 80 models on display. The winner, by 55 votes: Reg Butler and his abstract Prisoner...
...Manhattan, Collector Kress and the officers of his Kress Foundation could take pleasure in the fact that the first showing of their gift was New Orleans' biggest art event in 40 years. The museum has rebuilt three of its galleries, put in new lights, air-conditioned the entire building in anticipation. New Orleans citizens got reproductions of the new treasures on buses, in their gas and electric bills, and the museum expects to double its number of visitors next year. Said Alonzo Lansford, director of the Delgado Museum: "It was a heady experience . . . to be able to point...
When the chamber of the House of Commons was rebuilt after the blitz, it was said to have the world's finest air-conditioning system. But soon M.P.s were complaining about the stuffiness and the drafts. M.P.s in tweeds and woolen underwear objected that Britons are used to, and dress for, indoor temperatures of less than the 70° that satisfies most Americans. On the other hand, when the doors are opened wide, a chilly blast from adjoining rooms leaves the front benches shivering. Prime Minister Winston Churchill once got so cold that he flounced out of the House...
Even Massachusetts Avenue, the city's most excavated, rebuilt, and generally coddled thoroughfares, was for two days lined with heaps of slush. 'What's worse the snow ridges imprisoned veritable moats of water, making street crossing a challenge worthy of the Round Table's best effort...
...which they must lead to success . . . their re-election . . . Institutions do not change because men do not change. The day after the greatest catastrophe in our history [the fall of France], we had lost sight of this truth; the clean sweep gave us the illusion that everything would be rebuilt anew. I who have never placed hope in politics trembled with hope in that moment. And here we are in the same ruts we were in 13 years ago; the coach rattles more, the horses are thinner and the flies are fiercer-that's the only difference...