Word: albie
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...from Chicago to Seattle. Around the University were erected--I recall from the center field of countless softball games in the local summer leagues that played on diamonds squinched between warehouses and railway tracks--great grain elevators, bearing different emblems--Cargill, General Mills, Ceresota--recalling the cathedral-church of Albi in Southern France...
Traditionalists were planning stopovers at the Musée Ingres in the Gascon town of Montauban, or the Musée Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi...
Servant & Served Spaces. Kahn admits that he is inspired by such past piles as the Roman Emperor Hadrian's villa, the walled town of Carcassonne, the turreted cathedral of Albi. What keeps Kahn modern are his use of materials, his trusses and cantilevers of reinforced concrete. What makes his work exciting is that he has modernized old conventions and brought back to architecture a sense of romance and daring...
...heretics called Cathari (from the Greek word for pure), or Albigenses, from the town of Albi, one of their centers in Languedoc, were stamped out in 35 ruthless years of fire and sword. But as the centuries rolled on, they have had a measure of revenge against the Roman Catholic Church. The hatred generated by the crusade prepared the way for Protestantism. And in modern France, where popular apostasy from Catholicism is today wider and deeper than anything Pope Innocent could have imagined, the ancient heresy of Catharism is enjoying a remarkable revival of interest...
...renounce belief in a church the way one believes in God, and to renounce this definitely." In his drab boardinghouse in Albi,* he gets about 25 letters a day; he has been forced to buy a rubber stamp to acknowledge them...