Word: augustus
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...SPAD: Rome of Augustus...
...Museum of Art and for attempting to cut off public funding for the museum [NATION, Oct. 4]. Our society needs more courageous, moral people like Mayor Giuliani to stand up against the filth that is constantly being thrust upon us by left-wing liberals in the arts and entertainment. AUGUSTUS S. HUSSELTON Harrisburg...
...MacNeil is currently on the boards of the Mass. Historical Society in Boston and the American Antiquarian Society in Worchester. He as serves as a trustee with the Augustus St. Gordon's historical site in Cornish...
MacNeil is currently on the boards of the Mass. Historical Society in Boston and the American Antiquarian Society in Worchester. He as serves as a trustee with the Augustus St. Gordon's historical site in Cornish...
Foster can handle both with equal aplomb. In 1993 he completed a cultural center for the French city of Nimes, in Provence. It is right next to the city's most famous Roman monument, the so-called Maison Carree--a Corinthian temple dedicated to Augustus' sons in the year A.D. 4. It was Thomas Jefferson's favorite classical building--in fact, Jefferson based his whole conception of Neo-Classical architecture on it--and one obviously had to approach such a historical object with caution. Would the solution be a pastiche historical arts center? Foster was sure not. "I went there...