Word: carver
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Roman Gods & Abe Lincoln. Originally, the city fathers had no grand design in mind.One of their first purchases was made in the early 1800s to decorate the city waterworks, and it consisted of wooden figures by William Rush, the famous carver of ships' figureheads. From Sculptor Randolph Rogers in 1871 came a statue of Lincoln. In 1887 Alexander Milne Calder, grandfather of the mobilist, did an equestrian bronze of Philadelphia's Civil War hero, General George Meade. Frederic Remington produced a Cowboy; Daniel C. French did an idealized female Justice; Augustus Saint-Gaudens carved a bust of President...
Royal Oak Township's Carver Elementary School is "a cinderblock monstrosity," is it? Well, this is the school I had to build in a nearby village one day last year toward the finish of the monsoon, and in two days of end-of-monsoon rain, it looked like this (see cut). When the four months' rain totaled 250 in., the kids moved into a 10 by 10 cowshed darker than the Black Hole and as miry as Andersonville; and when the cows needed shelter we had to move out again...
...Carver Elementary School looks a pretty marvelous building to us. What standards do you Americans use to measure by? Your own, or those of the rest of the poor world? Don't you ever give thanks for small mercies...
After Detroit rejected tuition students, the Carver district's school board appealed to the adjacent white suburbs. Ferndale, which already has a 10% Negro high school enrollment, had no qualms about turning down Carver graduates. Oak Park, a predominantly liberal Jewish community, suffered some embarrassment. In the end, Oak Park followed Ferndale. Only a nearby Roman Catholic parochial school. Our Lady of Victory, still accepts Royal Oak Township's children. But it is not a high school...
Last week all sorts of experts were mulling over "long-range" solutions for Royal Oak Township's problems. Some of them thought the place should be wiped out as a political entity. But no one had yet found a high school for Carver's 24 ninth-graders. The only solution, it seemed, was to plunk them back in Carver and call one of its battered rooms a high school...