Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parks Department has approved the plan in principle. When installed, the monument will allow visitors to stroll among the piers; the central pier will be open on one side and serve as a small chapel with writing incised upon the walls. The lightsome, airy cubes are designed to reflect sunlight, people, trees and even boats passing by in New York harbor...
...early morning sunlight, Viet Cong agitators harangued crowds routed out onto street corners at gunpoint. They had free run for only a few hours. Two battalions of South Vietnamese troops were hastily airlifted from Saigon. Street by street, they drove the enemy out of town and back into the surrounding paddies...
Warm and winding where subdued sunlight...
...August or September, plans call for more sledding on firm ice until the long winter night sets in. They will camp again from October until March when the daily quota of sunlight is large enough for travel, having drifted near the North Pole during that North encampment. Then they will have to race against the spring surface melt and hopefully arrive at Longyearbyen on Spitzbergen Island in mid-June. There the H.M.S. Endurance will be on hand to return them to England
There they stand in the landscape, great, granite figures-some 13 feet tall and weighing up to 2½ tons. Their hollow gaze seems to follow the visitor; their enigmatic expressions change from minute to minute in the shifting sunlight. "When you look at one, you know it represents someone-someone to whom you could give a name," says Archaeologist Roger Grosjean, 47, the man responsible for bringing the monuments to light. Corsica's sculptured menhirs (from Breton men-stone, and hir-long) are among the oldest monumental statues in Europe. Says Grosjean: "For the origin of sculpture, these...