Word: farragut
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...people all over town. But he pushed me to think, to analyze Washington and to look around corners at what was happening. He made me smarter in dozens of ways, and for that I will always be grateful. Over many lunches at the Army and Navy Club on Farragut Square, he also became a friend in whom I could confide and and from whom I often sought advice. I know I wasn't the only guy who used him as a sounding board. (Read a 1966 TIME story on the beginning of Novak's partnership with Rowland Evans...
...McKim, Mead and White's Pennsylvania Station. However, work did survive, though unconsulted. Few visits were paid to his Shaw monument on Boston Common, the most intensely felt image of military commemoration ever made by an American; few Manhattanites bestowed more than a glance at his monuments to Admiral Farragut and General Sherman. Curators who, given the ticket, would cross the Atlantic to admire some steatopygous bauble by Niki de Saint-Phalle would hardly have crossed the street to see an Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Even today his rehabilitation is incomplete. Sculpture provokes fewer fantasies than painting; not everyone is willing...
...anything, from a 10-ft. stone profile on a pyramid in Wyoming to the design of the century's most beautiful coin, the gold 1907 double eagle. He could evoke any mood in a face, from the tremulous profile of an adolescent girl to the stormy jut of Farragut's jaw. But the main impression his works leave, when seen together, is not so much of a rigid technique turning out predictable results (which one learns to expect from official sculptors) as of an extreme responsiveness and delicacy, an adoring pursuit of the nuance, which coexists with his fondness...
...Farragut Square, I heard the couriers before I saw them. It was a boisterous laugh: Five couriers gathered, their bikes resting in the grass, joking about a day well spent. D.C. interns have a culture of their own; as a media person I am somewhat off the intern routine, but I see them enough to describe it well. Interns dress for their congressional offices in the uncomfortable and eternally vague "business attire." Interns put in long days of answering phones and doing research for higher-ups who are accustomed to both dressing well and being able to ask someone...
...walk through the Farragut Square, trudging home, there is a sweaty hand I wish I would shake...