Word: chapele
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...calls for tighter rules on the availability of combat- style weapons as well as soul-searching debates about the victimization of women. But the most touching commentary involved very few words. After a candlelight procession to the university, some 1,500 women and men sat silently in a Montreal chapel, the quiet broken only by the occasional hymn...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel memorial service, attended by more than 70 people, took place in Hillel's Morgenthau Chapel...
...done with literally colossal gusto. The whole windowless chamber seems ready, for a moment, to totter and fall on your head. No room in Italy gives you a clearer sense of the mannerist delight in bizarre illusion. If one could imagine a halfway point between Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes and the gee-whiz delights of Walt Disney, this would...
...need to be a sentimental, moonstruck romantic to grieve for all this. For its implications go far beyond the bedroom or the wedding chapel. For it is only recently, and only in America, I believe, that love has come to be seen as a social and economic soporific, a kind of Quaalude to the energies of career, politics and other achievement. And Willa Cather, I believe, was very wrong in describing what she called "that secondary social man, the lover." Rather it seems to me that the love of a single person--passionate, devoted, consuming, honoring...human--is the fuel...
...genre picture of women at work, spinning the woolen yarn for the Royal Tapestry Factory of Santa Isabel; but its meanings unravel far beyond that, back to the fable of Arachne in Ovid's Metamorphoses, taking in complicated references to Titian and even to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling...