Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saint-Gaudens' major works are landmarks spread out over the outdoors for all to see. The equestrian Sherman on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the Chicago Lincoln, Boston's Shaw Memorial, and the memorial figure of grief in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery, beneath which Henry Adams now lies buried with his wife, all show Saint-Gaudens' size. Critics are apt to regard his art, like Rodin's, as more pictorial than sculptural-it looks modeled rather than molded, and seems to hold some of the softness of clay. But it is art which exerts...
...Free Seats. Manufacturers, led by the P.M.A., screamed like wounded banshees. P.M.A.'s founder, rock-ribbed old "Uncle Joe" Grundy, sent a handyman to have words with Big Jim. Ordinarily, Republican governors do as Uncle Joe says. But Big Jim, after hearing the Grundy man out, took his feet off his desk, stood up and roared: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time [that] I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." The tax bills passed...
...Prudential Insurance Co., whose advertisements boast that it "has the strength of Gibraltar," received a 1½-ton chunk of The Rock itself, to be set in the corner stone of its new West Coast offices...
...quiet Sunday afternoon in Shreveport, La., and two schoolboys (9 and 11) were playing cowboys & Indians in the schoolyard. One of them slung a rock-and accidentally broke a window. That set them off. With a whoop, they threw rocks and more rocks. Great was the slaughter-156 windows-in Alexander School...
Poet Carl Sandburg, who had been paid $60,000 in advance to deliver a novel to M-G-M within ten months, sheepishly turned in a 1,480-page work called Remembrance Rock-five years late. Explained Sandburg: "I got interested...