Word: cathedrale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It was stern, strict, and snobbish-a cold facsimile of an English public school. Boys were belted for the most minor offenses; some tried to run away. Sons of the poor, who came on scholarships, were called "rats" by wealthier students. St. Albans School for boys, owned by the Cathedral...
Bishop Wurm had not only succeeded in uniting the Protestant churches administratively ; he had also taken a significant step towards a spiritual unification. The new constitution, while allowing each church to retain its own viewpoint on Holy Communion, states that all German Protestants can partake of the sacrament in any...
What is often comic, but always instructive about this book is Author Davenport's way of reversing the normal scale of values. No matter how largely they may figure, art, literature, history, the soul of man itself here becomes secondary to the prime concern-surface appearances. When Author Davenport...
There'll be a hush over London as the last few minutes of the Old Year tick away. Then, from the four orange faces of Big Ben will come the first chimes of midnight, slow and reverberating, creeping from radio sets into every waiting home in the land. A...
At Columbia Records, there was much less hoopla. Their new Manhattan recording studio, a converted church, was as sparsely peopled as an English cathedral at evensong. A hundred-odd lights, suspended like enormous inverted flowers from the beamed ceiling, illuminated a small group of bored musicians, engineers and minor officials...