Word: vandalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opulent; exquisite, not ostentatious. The East Room is regal with lapis lazuli columns flanking the fireplace and with a Flemish 16th century tapestry above it. What unconscious impulse of guilt or pride determined the choice of this particular weaving? It represents The Triumph of Avarice, and it includes one vandal stealing leaves of an illuminated manuscript...
Only one of the staff of the night watchmen openly admits having made a serious error while on the job. Joseph Brannan, who is stationed at Langdell Hall in the Law School confesses that one night he saw what he took to a local vandal climbing in through a first-floor window. It was too late to rectify his mistake when, having run his man down, he discovered him to be a middle-aged, still athletic, professor...
...even an ex-Prime Minister could preserve her from the sight of American soldiers pinching British womanhood, or -most "sinister portent" of all-"the spectacle of London without her railings. It was almost like seeing Queen Victoria without her clothes ... The parks . .. the sacrosanct squares . . . flung open to the vandal incursions of children and dogs." Even that oak of ages, the English language, had changed. Monica heard for the first time of such things as jazz, lounge lizards, isolationism, the Lambeth Walk, cocktails, robots, striptease, Hollywood and bright young thing...