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Whether built with delicate sensitivity to materials or dull adherence to principles, the glass box became an icon of Cold War capitalism, a symbol of modernist cosmopolitanism befitting a global superpower in the making.
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There is a certain everyman quality that becomes a very strong icon for the reality of war, which is always a tragic reality.
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This was the icon the government used to sell war bonds, and which led to Mr de Weldon being given the commission by Congress to make the Washington sculpture.
ECONOMIST: Felix de Weldon