In her WSJ column dated December 18 , 2009 Peggy Noonan suggests that recent polls indicating 55% of Americans think we are on the wrong track are not just about the economy and politics but rather, "Americans are worried about the core and character of the American nation, and about our culture".
The present building, a Greek Revival structure with four granite columns, dates from 1828.
It is large and straw berry-soda foam colored, with glossy white columns, dating from the 1930's.
A pair of large French bronze candelabra on red scagliola columns dating from the 1880s reproduced a model of the 1780s.
Ottoman and Abasi columns of the Grand Mosque Slated for demolition as part of the Grand Mosque expansion, these intricately carved columns date back to the 17th century and are the oldest surviving sections of Islam's holiest site.
In a corner of the tree-shaded square, a few yards from the broken stumps of columns dating back to the age of Socrates and Aristotle, an old man is hand-pumping olive oil into small green bottles from a 50-litre can resting in the sidecar of an ancient BMW motorcycle.
After reading Sunday's Times obituary, full of flattering observations – it had to be, more or less, but the fans mourning in the comments beneath it didn't have their arms twisted – I went into the Times archive to read Safire columns dating back to 1981.
The collapsible steering column, for instance: Although patents for impact-absorbing steering columns date to the 1930s, it wasn't until 1967, in response to coming government legislation, that General Motors and Chrysler made the feature standard on all models; Ford followed in 1968.
Just look at the back page of the The Grid with its terrible (but surely profitable) columns "Dating Diaries" and "The Hookup".
I've got ten more pages of notes along these same lines, having recently read through all of Krauthammer's Washington Post columns dating back to 1999 in preparation for my next book.
