All 17 Uses
Parthenon
in
The Fountainhead
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- A green spot stood in the center of a picture of the Parthenon, suspended over the fireplace.†
Chpt 1.1 *Parthenon = most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece
- He pointed to the picture of the Parthenon.†
Chpt 1.1
- "That," said the Dean, "is the Parthenon."†
Chpt 1.1
- It's the Parthenon!" said the Dean.†
Chpt 1.1
- Yes, God damn it, the Parthenon!†
Chpt 1.1
- The Parthenon did not serve the same purpose as its wooden ancestor.†
Chpt 1.1
- An airline terminal does not serve the same purpose as the Parthenon.†
Chpt 1.1
- He had time to note a genuine Roman statue in a corner, sepia photographs of the Parthenon, of Rheims Cathedral, of Versailles and of the Frink National Bank Building with the eternal torch.†
Chpt 1.3
- The museum building, Keating pointed out proudly, was to be decidedly different: it was not a reproduction of the Parthenon, but of the Maison Carrée at Nîmes.†
Chpt 1.8
- The sketch represented a house in the shape of a grain silo incredibly merged with the simplified, emaciated shadow of the Parthenon.†
Chpt 1.8
- With the latest news of the casting of I'll Take a Sailor and the shooting of Wives for Sale, came stories about the Parthenon and the Pantheon.†
Chpt 1.14
- Then he whirled around to his drawing of the Cosmo-Slotnick Building, that hung on the wall between a huge photograph of the Parthenon and one of the Louvre.†
Chpt 2.3
- The Parthenon has usurped the recognition which—and isn't that usually the case?†
Chpt 2.3
- Other men, of whom there were greater numbers, the men who had been safe in copying the Parthenon, saw the danger and found a way to security: to walk Cameron's path and make it lead them to a new Parthenon, an easier Parthenon in the shape of a packing crate of glass and concrete.†
Chpt 3.6
- Other men, of whom there were greater numbers, the men who had been safe in copying the Parthenon, saw the danger and found a way to security: to walk Cameron's path and make it lead them to a new Parthenon, an easier Parthenon in the shape of a packing crate of glass and concrete.†
Chpt 3.6
- Other men, of whom there were greater numbers, the men who had been safe in copying the Parthenon, saw the danger and found a way to security: to walk Cameron's path and make it lead them to a new Parthenon, an easier Parthenon in the shape of a packing crate of glass and concrete.†
Chpt 3.6
- The men who designed the Parthenon, the Gothic cathedrals, the first skyscrapers.†
Chpt 4.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(Parthenon) most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)