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...Yale architecture student, won the competition with her subtle, somber design, which looks like manicured stone ramparts: two angled walls, each 250 ft. long, sloping down into the ground from a height of 10 ft. at their junction. The carved names of the dead begin and end at the apex, arranged in the order of their deaths from...
Sprugue--an official of Apex Realty Trust which now owns the building--could not be reached for comment last night...
Saturday's service at the cradle of English Christendom, Canterbury Cathedral, was to be the emotional apex of the visit-and the most splendid ecumenical event of John Paul's reign. Greeted by Prince Charles and other dignitaries, the Pontiff took his place in a processional through the great West Door. Joining the symbolic march to the altar were Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Anglican primates, flown in from four other continents to participate. It was the first time any Pontiff was to worship in an Anglican cathedral...
...tension made flesh, is one of the supreme 19th century portraits, and the drama of contrast between the dense masses of black suits and gloomy tiers of students, and the swooning white of the patient's thigh surrounded by anxious straining hands and white cloth, reaches its apex in the fresh blood on Gross's hand and the retracted lips of the wound. Such imagery alarmed Philadelphian taste a century ago; The Agnew Clinic was rejected from the Pennsylvania Academy's exhibition in 1891 because it depicted a mastectomy for cancer and was "not cheerful for ladies...
...CRITICISM of U.S. policies in East Asia and discussions of wrenching issues concerning China and the United States that he intersperses most clearly show the acute seriousness that put him at the apex of American China studies. These porgnant and too-infrequent commentaries reaffirm the importance of studying the land to which this man has donated his scholarship. Now that China has inundated America in the form of Bloomingdale oriental bazaars and tours of the Great Wall offered by our local travel agents, the impact of Fairbank's first writing can't be fully appreciated. Even when he takes...