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Several canvas chairs were destroyed in the fire, which apparently started when oily rags ignited spontaneously. The blaze was extinguished quickly, with little injury reported to the storage room...
...with Arms. It has fascinated scholars ever since. The Book of Kells does not blaze with gold as the manuscripts of Europe and Byzantium often do, but no other example of Celtic illustration and calligraphy surpasses it in quality. There seems no end to the imagination of the anonymous monks who created it. Patterns are as severe as a Gothic steeple, or as intricate as a piece of lace; but never is their harmony lost or their rhythm broken. The stylized figures are often a bit grotesque, but in scenes like the "Arrest of Christ" from Matthew 26 (see color...
...founder of John Courtney Murray's order and soldier-saint meets Citizen Tom Paine, soldier-atheist. St. Thomas, the Angelic Doctor and patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems. Monasticism, shielding a candle through the Dark Ages, meets the blaze of the Enlightenment. The Inquisition meets the Supreme Court, the apostolic succession meets the clapboard Congregationalist Church, the Sacred Roman Rota meets Reno...
...morning fire yesterday destroyed the Poet's theater building just one block from Harvard Square. The two-alarm blaze brought firemen to the scene at 24-28 Palmer Street at 10:30 a.m., and the fire wasn't declared "all out" until almost six hours later...
Crowds of four to five hundred braved the 15 degree whether as they swarmed around the fire area. Footing as slippery and treacherous with ice forming quickly on the street. At one point in the morning the crowd was doused jets of water when firemen fought the blaze from inside building...