Word: corinthian
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...chandeliered, Corinthian-columned Senate Caucus Room, where his brother had launched his campaign eight years earlier, he began with the identical words that John F. Kennedy had used: "I am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the United States." In front of Bobby was a throng of 450, including Wife Ethel and nine of his ten children; behind him was the big, green-felt-covered table at which he had sat as counsel both for Joe McCarthy's investigations subcommittee and for the Army-McCarthy hearings that finally curbed the Wisconsin Senator's power...
...York started. Next to it he State Capitol itself, and explosion in stone of the exuberance and pride of the men who won the Civil War. Across the way, the State Education Building, not very good turn-of-the-century beaux art, more French poodle corinthian thany anything else, but trying. Behind it the Alfred E. Smith Office Building, an honest skyscraper of the Empire State era, and a good one. And mercifully, far away, the utterly sterile and deadly departmental buildings...
Though long expected, word of his retirement caught Wall Streeters unprepared. Throughout almost all the long postwar bull market, Funston has been the symbol and champion of the New York Stock Exchange's Corinthian-columned citadel, a man who helped change its image from that of a clubby, tricky place to that of a respectable and generally profitable market for everyman. After his announcement last week, a score of names were bruited about as possible successors; they ranged from Richard M. Nixon to Walter...
Will Steven Armstrong's basic set has a backdrop with Roman porticos painted on it, in front of which two monumental staircases slant in from the upstage corners. At the start there are two tall tapering silver fleches topped with Corinthian capitals, and a row of silver rods hanging behind. Other irregular rafts of widely spaced rods go up and down here and there during the play. There is nothing wrong with stylized settings, but to have players point to these batches of vertical rods and call them a "tent" is carrying license too far. Armstrong has clothed the cast...
Charles Dickens sniped at such obsequies when he wrote of "the full-length engraving of the sublime Snigworth, snorting at a Corinthian column, with an enormous roll of paper at his feet, and a heavy curtain going to tumble down on his head; those accessories being understood to represent the noble lord in the act of saving his country." Dickens himself lies in circumstances of the kind that he once mocked...