Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stricken Building, Stricken Man. Believing that he was about to die, Elwes received the last sacraments. Instead, he slowly recovered. Over & over, during his recovery, the ruined man dreamed of the ruined abbey...
...Simon Elwes (pronounced El-wez), a young socialite painter who was visiting friends in Yorkshire, decided to have a look at the local ruin, Fountains Abbey. He expected to see a heap of charming and tedious rubble. He saw a heart-touching sweep of Norman, Gothic and Jacobean stone, lichenous and somnolent in great gardens beside the fleet little River Skell. The 814-year-old abbey (desecrated by order of Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which...
London was engaged last week in a war of attrition with itself. Inside Abbey Lodge, the Duchess of Bedford apartments and other big blocks of swank lodgings were encamped hundreds of squatters who refused to come out. Squads of alert bobbies prevented food, clothing and reinforcements from going in. The Government had ordered water and electricity turned off. Lice, cold, dirt, lack of bedding and food reduced the squatters to a pale, disheveled, begrimed group...
Last week about a thousand people had gathered before Abbey Lodge, a large modern block of flats requisitioned by the Air Ministry. Gradually a swelling chant of "Bedding for the squatters-bedding for the squatters-" rose, reached a frightening crescendo and fell again. From the squatters, whose morale still held, came the answering chant, "We'll stick it-we'll stick it." A poorly dressed woman wiped her eyes, smiled and said: "Ah, bless 'em, poor devils, I reckon they deserve medals for this." On the outskirts of the crowd a middleaged, middle-class man stood watching...
...architectural purists St. Pat's was a somewhat lumpy mixture of the Cologne and Rouen cathedrals, with a touch of Westminster Abbey inside. They pointed out that some of its supports and buttresses, borrowed from European cathedrals, where they were essential parts of the structure, were pasted on to St. Pat's merely for looks. Repairs had exposed brick underpinnings; proved its marble beauty skin-deep...