Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes ticked by as the masked troopers stood in stony suspension, feet spread, arms down, holding their clubs at both ends. The Negroes stared at them somberly. Then Major Cloud gave the order: "Troopers-forward!" The patrolmen moved in a solid wall, pushing back the Negroes. The marchers in front began to stumble and fall, and a few troopers tripped...
Things did not go half badly. After lunch and a look at the Wall with Mayor Willy Brandt in Berlin, Wilson went on to Bonn, where he sat down with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard for an informal dinner that went on until midnight. Out of it came 1) an assurance that Erhard would look into the matter of Buying British, and 2) a book entitled A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne-a gift from Ludwig to Harold...
Renaissance Fantasia. Passing from gallery to gallery becomes a kind of progressive Elysian cocktail party. Nowhere in the world does such a trio of great Manets dominate a wall as do the Met's three restored portraits in Spanish costumes. El Greco's alabaster Cardinal Niño de Guevara glowers within sight of the Spanish master's only landscape, View of Toledo, and his last great commission, St. John's Vision. In adjacent quarters Poussin's Sabine women are abducted in the passionless postures of French neoclassic actors. Through another doorway the visitor...
...explain another. The Met's collection of Islamic art lines a corridor that logically leads to a 14th century tiled mihrab (prayer niche), as magically multicolored as a Persian carpet. To show the effervescent character of baroque art, a huge, gilded 17th century harpsichord is placed against a wall of Tiepolo's levitating flights of linear fancy. And in the center of a room coated with Italian 16th century masters rests Benvenuto Cellini's great cup, a Renaissance fantasia 7½ in. high, in which a turtle and a dragon balance a seashell in gold, enamel...
...baroque choir screen, whose 60,000 Ibs. of elegant grillwork spans one of the Met's halls. Only a museum can frame a room as art, such as the Met's cubiculum, or bedroom, from the Roman town of Boscoreale on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Its wall scenes of architectural vistas help make the museum's Roman painting the best outside Italy, as well as giving a sense of the 1st century B.C. country squire's yearning for civility. The private study of a 15th century Italian duke, Federigo da Montefeltro, a Renaissance humanist...