Word: chapell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Glee Club: grumbling emerges from Holden Chapel. Jameson Marvin, the new choral director, walked into a hostile situation and met limited success last year. The all-male chorus sings a varied but small repertoire. Its highlight traditionally is a tenor's rendition of "Loch Lomond...
...labor, Michelangelo was peremptorily summoned to Rome by Pope Julius II to design his tomb and later to paint the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "The place is wrong, and no painter I," grumbled Michelangelo, who considered himself first and foremost a sculptor. Three superb drawings of torsos show the pains he took over the huge scheme, which cost him four years of neck-straining labor...
...time he was 60, and despite his success and fame, Michelangelo had turned moody, irascible, feeling himself harassed by worry and his powers waning. Yet he was already launched into the six-year labor of creating the Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. It was a tumultuous design, here embodied in a sketch dynamic with the swirl of falling bodies and tortured shapes of the agonized damned; his earlier calm, idealized nudes were transformed into the twisted forms expressive of his own brooding sense of sin and death...
...Sunday morning, the Carters decided to skip Protestant services and go instead to the Catholic chapel of the Hofburg to hear the Vienna Boys Choir. The President then joined Brezhnev at the Soviet embassy for more talks on various military issues, including SALT III, the stalled negotiations on troop reductions in Europe and treaties to ban chemical warfare and all nuclear weapons tests. On parting, Brezhnev again stumbled on the embassy steps but was soon steadied by Carter and an aide...
...Sweden and Israel, as well as all over the U.S. Six are in their 30s. Four are professors emeriti. Five are women. And it is safe to say that they look at the center 27 different ways as they drive up each morning from houses and apartments in nearby Chapel Hill, Raleigh or Durham...