Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave him not only a magnificent sire for his herd, but also half the spread's name. The Win in Winrock is for Winthrop, but the Rock is for Rock the bull, not Rockefeller. Then he put in six artificial lakes, rebuilt the original house as a stone-and-glass palazzo, pumped water 850 ft. up the side of Petit Jean for an irrigation system, built roads and an airfield. He owns four planes, including a ten-passenger jet, employs five pilots, and has flown more than 3,000,000 miles with his private air force...
...ties to Mother England, whose ways and even appearance are duplicated on the island to a remarkable degree. Alone among the British islands of the Caribbean, Barbados has never been out of English hands since it was settled in 1627. Driving is on the left; neat hedges or stone walls mark property lines; the effective civil service and the police are very British; there is tea at 4, and everyone is keen on cricket. In fact, everything is so teddibly, teddibly British that the capital of Bridgetown has a Trafalgar Square, complete with statue of Lord Nelson, that was built...
...that Cram envisioned at the crossing point of nave and transepts, the new design recommends a dome made of concrete louvers alternating with panels of colored glass. The transepts have been modernized in the new plans, and will be made from granite-faced concrete rather than from expensive cut stone...
Walt Disney, who has previously shown a not-altogether-punctilious concern with things Celtic (The Sword in the Stone), has now undertaken to preserve this heroic figure as he always preserves a heroic figure: by embalming it in marmalade. In the new movie, one of the great fighting Irishmen is transformed into a priggish Prince Valiant and his complex politico-military career made into the sort of primary-colored comic strip that parents consider safe and children consider dull...
Only the Chin. Deiss's book discloses another archaeological irony. "Of the whole face of Herculaneum," he writes, "we have seen thus far only the chin." Systematic excavation has been halted since before the war. Most of Herculaneum still sleeps beneath millions of tons of volcanic stone; all of the forum, for instance, the heart of every Roman town, is completely enshrouded. "It seems incredible," Deiss concludes, "to discover a buried treasure...