Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poet, an obscure contemporary of Michelangelo's, was trying to describe one of the seven figures which the sculptor had carved for the Medici Chapel in Florence's Church of San Lorenzo. Charles de Tolnay, a Michelangelo scholar and member of Princeton's highbrow Institute for Advanced Study, has done much better. In a newly published book of bold erudition (The Medici Chapel; Princeton University Press, $20) De Tolnay interprets the entire chapel in the light of a single theme. Deep inside De Tolnay's brier patch of facts and shrewd guesses lies new evidence that...
...four years ago, Dr. Howard Thurman, dean of the chapel and professor of Christian theology at Washington, D.C.'s Howard University, got an unusually challenging letter. It was an invitation to help start an interracial, interdenominational church in San Francisco. There was no assurance that the colored people would take to the idea, or that white San Franciscans would approve. The pay would be negligible. Before long, Thurman had left Howard, where he had been twelve years, and was on his way to the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples...
...Bers took his eccentricities for granted; they knew that all the Tolstoys were mildly mad. (Devout Brother Dimitry Tolstoy attended divine service every saint's day-in the chapel of a local prison.) One of young Leo's favorite whims was to let chance decide important questions. "If she takes that final high note well," he said to himself one evening when Tatyana was singing, "then I shall deliver my letter today" (a proposal of marriage to sister Sonya). Tatyana took her note superbly; Tolstoy instantly delivered...
...Chapel Hill...
...audience had pushed into every nook of the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and several hundred spilled over on to the lawn outside. At 8:30, a kindly-faced man, with the tiny red rosette of the Legion of Honor in the lapel of his grey suit, nudged his way through the chancel, climbed up on the organ bench, stretched his legs, and began Bach's Prelude in C Major. As he wove the huge fabric of the fugue, never losing a single thread of it, his listeners understood why Marcel Dupré is considered...