Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andrea Mitchell corners Baker in the Capitol Rotunda shortly before George Bush is to be sworn in as President. She wonders if Baker might himself someday be taking the oath from the Chief Justice. Baker's smile is tight and forced. "Absolutely not," he says...
...private citizens, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals halted a seven-year custom in downtown Pittsburgh. The seasonal Nativity scene, erected by the Holy Name Society of the Pittsburgh diocese, was barred from the Allegheny County courthouse, where it had adorned the grand staircase of the building's rotunda. Also banned was an 18-ft. menorah displayed a block away at the front of the City-County building and sponsored by Chabad, the national organization of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews. "The city viewed the display as a nice gesture consistent with the holiday spirit," laments George Specter, one of Pittsburgh...
Harvard's Dining Hall Services and Facilities Maintenance last week gave the Freshman Union rotunda a facelift, making the popular alternative to the gloomy main dining hall a little bit brighter...
...rotunda is actually a lovely room," said Director of Harvard Dining Services Frank J. Weissbecker. "But the Venetian blinds were rotting. The floor was dangerous with ruts. And blinds are terrible dirt accumulators," he said...
...that Jefferson's ideas about building illustrate the ideas of the American Constitution. But they certainly grew from the same origin -- the secular humanism that, despite the gaudy bleatings of today's religious right, was their common moral root. Thus the calm, measured, lucid interior of Jefferson's Rotunda, the focus of his "academical village" (the University of Virginia), declares the value of reason and persuades us that humane analysis, not blind faith, is the true measure of a decent society. We sentimentalize Jefferson and his colleagues if we suppose they were not elitists. His buildings, like other major expressions...