Word: neoclassicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The result, which cast its shadow over Budapest last week, was probably far superior to the pink marble monuments the Reds have been building in Berlin, and certainly surpassed the obelisks, as characterless as paperweights, with which they have dotted Eastern Europe in the past two years. Instead of a...
Black Ties. There were Argentine lunches, Panamanian drinks, and Mexican decoration ceremonies. There was the opera, with Gigli singing in La Tosca and tiaras sparkling from the boxes. One night Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra gave a state dinner in the palm-lined patio of the neoclassic Itamarati...
The name Austria first appeared (as Osterrich) in a state document, signed by the Emperor Otto III, on Nov. 1, 996. In the grandiose neoclassic Parliament building on the Ringstrasse last week, Chancellor Leopold Figl glumly celebrated Austria's 950th birthday with a speech pleading for Austria's...
Faddists of the primitive were fascinated. For Miss Willson's paintings (of subjects like General Washington on Horse, The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony, Riotous Living, Henry and His Pet Goat, Lovers) revealed a forthright, uninhibited graphic touch as clear and gay as sunlight. Typical was General Washington, decorative...
On the pediment of the neoclassic State Office Building at Sacramento is inscribed a line from a poem by the late Sam Walter FOSS: BRING ME MEN TO'MATCH MY MOUNTAINS. Visitors to the Governor's office frequently wonder if Earl Warren, California's 30th governor and...