Word: abbeys
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...irony and a longing for an older order, especially spiritual. "Where there was light-from the headlamps of cars, from streetlamps and shop windows-it seemed to be a fuzzy, half-hearted sort of light, almost conspiring with the dark to lose itself in blackness. The windows of the Abbey glowed dimly like old jewels. Behind them, the choir, Dean and Chapter had recently acknowledged that they had followed too much the devices and desires of their own hearts...
...Yeats' works about his favourite haunts, Trevor says there is "an instinct for places" and "the genius of the artist who is capable of using the parochial to illuminate the human condition." In excerpts from his poems we see the ruined abbey of Corcomroe in County Clare and, later, the forbidding Norman tower in Galway: "An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower" which Yeats made his summer house. And in "Reveries over Childhood and Youth." Yeats reminisces about Lissadell House, the home of a favourite Anglo-Irish family...
...changes have been minimal. A $30 million restoration plan included replacing the metal roof tacked on in 1901 with a glass one like the original, and casting plaster-and-jute capitals to restore damaged columns. In the clock tower, ten enormous new bells, replicas of Westminster Abbey's, will ring out across Washington...
...17th century brick building on Paris' Boulevard de Port-Royal, once the abbey where the Mathematician Blaise Pascal underwent religious conversion, a quite different kind of experiment is taking place. Into a small room of the Baudelocque Maternity Hospital marches a nurse bearing a tiny, wrinkled infant named Gery. He is four days old and weighs 6 lbs. 6 oz. The nurse carefully deposits Gery in a waist-high steel bassinet that stands next to a computer. The computer is attached to an empty nipple. The question to be tested: Exactly what sounds can young Gery recognize...
...celebrity on the BBC's Not the Nine O'clock News, is conducting a valiant but vain effort to revive the corpse of Charley's Aunt. Most of the cast treats this 1892 farce as reverently as if they were playing Westminster Abbey; Rhys Jones, dressed for most of the play in widow's weeds, at least manages a passable impression of Margaret Rutherford imitating Queen Victoria...