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There is a tale making the slow rounds about the Art of Henry James. James, it goes, constructed a great Gothic Cathedral of his craft. Beneath the arches and between the pews our heels clatter and our voices echo. But upon arriving at the altar (so says the story) we discover a dead...
...each age I have found a home: I was swaddled in immortality and time was my play-pen. Men burned candles at my altar--in religion, poetry, the sciences. All the professions engendered their terms, and the terms became symbols, and the symbols grew into myths, and the myths became legends. And the legends were allegories, teaching the racial wisdom...
...clerk at the Commonwealth Works Department. There, a year and a half ago, 24-year-old Bas Wie met a pretty young white girl from Perth. After a year-long courtship, the two were married in the Roman Catholic Church where Bas Wie had once served as an altar...
...Altar Egos. In Los Angeles, Western Air Lines reported that while a 108-day pilots' union strike grounded the line, 40 idle stewardesses got married, had to give up their jobs because of a company rule against married stewardesses...
Back in Chicago this week in his familiar Cathedral of the Holy Name on North State Street, the body of the Bishop of Charity lay in state on a black-draped catafalque before the altar rail, while thousands upon thousands of the humble people who were Samuel Stritch's special concern moved quietly past...