Word: cathedrale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short and amiably unprepossessing, the man who sat in the great episcopal throne of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1939 was hardly the image of a bishop, let alone the archbishop of the vast Archdiocese of New York. "I shall pray as if everything depended upon God," he said...
Morris was only partly conscious of the absurdity of his position, but it may have unconsciously disturbed him. He was naturally a playful, jovial fellow, yet the end of his life was cursed by explosive rages, which may have betrayed his awareness that the world was not following the course...
The cornerstone of Kraus's approach is that the cathedral is a series of frozen tableaux of medieval life, depicting not only its highest ideals and aspirations but also the age's pungent humor, conflicts and upheavals. He decisively abolishes the traditional cliché that the medieval church...
On his first visit to Moscow, in August, Rademaekers was assigned by Intourist to a spacious room in the Rossia Hotel. The view included St. Basil's Cathedral and the famed chime bells of the Spasskaya clock tower in the Kremlin Wall. "Like other Americans there," he recalls, "I...
Achebe's novel is set in the early 1920s, but it would be helpful to think of it as a book that might very well have been written by an Anglo-Saxon chronicler about the 4th century A.D., just before the last Roman legion was to leave Britain; when...