Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop of Washington, he seized on 40-year-old plans for an American "West-minster Abbey," raised funds to complete enough of the Washington Cathedral to open it for public worship...
...bells rang out from Westminster Abbey, St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. The bells in the grey spires of Oxford sent their tumbling, brazen din across the countryside, and in ruined Coventry Cathedral the bells pealed from the tower, the only part of the structure intact...
...George's School in Newport, R.I. After his conversion, and subsequent ordination as an English Benedictine, he became prior of the Benedictine monastery in Portsmouth, R.I. At that time Father Hugh founded the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory School). Portsmouth may become the first Abbey school in the U.S. No other man is the beloved founder of two "prep" schools. TIME should double its list. GERALD MCGUIRE New York City...
France's renowned Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot showed his study of the ruins of the 900-year-old Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with...
...back at his Riversdale home by the next June, sleeping little, writing much, aging fast. His daughter Anne began to beat him at croquet. Down at the Abbey "it was rather sad to see [him] climb the stairs to the boardroom, stopping at the landing to recover breath so that he might make a lordly entrance as of old." He got out his final version of A Vision; his infinitely re-revised Collected Poems; his last book of verse (New Poems); his violent prose work On the Boiler, with its animadversions, scornfully antidemocratic as always, on popular education. Rilke...