Word: altare
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...doing an altar of St Thérèse de Lisieux, my favorite saint, and I needed a model for the angel in one of the panels. Jack, with his curly hair and his youthful serenity of expression, was literally God-sent." So said Sculptress Irena Wiley of John F. Kennedy, who at the time in 1939 was spending a week or so of his summer vacation from Harvard visiting the sculptress and her diplomat husband in Europe. Carving the wooden altarpiece for a Belgian church, Mrs. Wiley portrayed the future U.S. President as a guardian angel hovering over...
...quality of the courses of Gen Ed's greatest contributions to Harvard education. Unlike a the Committee has no use for the services of the great students. It can altar or course, and its repeated efforts to create an acceptable course in logical sciences form one would be hard to tell whether influence has yet spread to other , but it certainly affects teaching fellows the Committee the men who will climb the ladder to tenure in the department . This effect can certainly be expected to increase...
...exterior is "like a plain jewel casket with many jewels inside." The church is entered through an open porch that connects St. Michael's ruins to the huge glass screen that forms the new cathedral's south wall. Through the glass, the new cathedral's altar is visible from the ruins. From inside, icy-white saints and angels-designed by John Hutton and delicately etched on the glass-seem to dance in the clouds over the ruins...
...bare except for a simply inscribed rectangular Tablet of the Word on each of them. No windows can be seen, but the entire nave-from the dark marble floor to the fanlike tracery of the roof-is drenched with a multicolored light that draws the eye toward the altar and the huge Graham Sutherland tapestry (in color, opposite) that covers the north wall behind it. From the altar, the source of light is suddenly, almost theatrically apparent: ten narrow stained-glass windows, 70 ft. high, in the jogs of the saw-toothed walls. Says Spence: "These windows are like...
...poorest. Founded in 1871, it was once the most fashionable parish in town. The families who lived on "the Heights" were well-to-do, and the house of worship they built at 120 Summit Avenue was a monument to their generosity. The stained-glass windows were by Tiffany; the altar, pulpit and lectern were of the best Carrara marble...