Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...initial $6,000,000 to provide a new 8,000-acre campus for Durham's Trinity College (provided it changed the name to Duke). He wanted the architecture to be Gothic ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me"). He ordered a huge chapel with 77 stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon, and a tower modeled after one at Canterbury. He wanted schools of medicine, law and divinity. He planned a hospital with 416 beds, a stadium big enough for 35,000 spectators, a student union complete with the latest potato-peeling and dish-washing...
...hundred years ago this week Composer Frederic Chopin died in Paris, aged 39. For the great man's funeral in the Madeleine, admission was by card only: 3,000 crowded into the chapel. Theophile Gautier wrote his epitaph: "Rest in peace, beautiful soul, noble artist! Immortality has begun for you . . ." History has confirmed Gautier. This week, on the centenary of Chopin's death, the western world honored him on a scale matched only by the plaudits he knew in his lifetime...
...youth, Henri Matisse was enthralled by Giotto's religious frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua. But not until last year, at 78, did Matisse himself turn to religious art; then he began work on the little Dominican chapel that he had planned for the town of Vence, in the hills back of Nice. When he has finished, the result may be a 20th Century rival to Giotto's 14th Century work at Padua...
Since Matisse first conceived the chapel (TIME, Jan. 3), the ailing but happy old man has altered his plans for it again & again. The design for its eight narrow stained-glass windows of half-abstract leaves and cactuses done in blue, yellow and green was worked out by pinning colored scraps to long rolls of brown wrapping paper tacked to the walls of his hotel suite at Nice. The interior design was also the work of months; as now planned, its white marble floor and black-line Matisse murals drawn on white tiles will glow with colored light from...
...visitors scheduled over the week at short intervals. After a summer's light mail, her correspondence was beginning to swell. But modern Margaret Clapp, whom only the staunchest Wellesleyites had heard of two years ago, seemed already to be an old hand. As she conducted her first chapel, almost lost behind the great lectern, it was as if she had been a president for years. Wellesleyites decided that Margaret Clapp, in their chosen phrase, already looked like a well-rounded "First Lady...