Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LUMINOUS DARKNESS, by Howard Thurman. Dr. Thurman, a Negro and dean emeritus of Boston University's chapel, considers the changes in attitudes that must accompany civil rights legislation. His essays reflect the experience of a man who has lived through both violence and apathy and has given thought as well as action to the cause of his people...
...touch of man's hand-a touch that so many modern glass-and-steel structures lack. At Chandigarh, the new governmental seat of the state of Punjab in India, Corbu set about making battlements on a plain. Rendering to God as well as man, he designed a chapel at Ronchamp, France, with a roof shaped like a nun's coif (the shape also helps to project a preacher's voice). His only U.S. building is at Harvard, a Visual Arts Center perched on pilotis, with a wing shaped like the body of a guitar. His last project...
...England to convert Aachen into St. Augustine's Civitas Dei, the divine city, in the barbarian heartland of Europe. He encouraged one monk, Alcuin, to make script more readable; Carolingian minuscule is still the foundation for the text type used in present-day printing. He built an octagonal chapel that still stands in Aachen, along the lines of the mosaic-coated San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. He even stole marble columns from Ravenna to make his church more authentic...
Forces of Segregation. Dr. Thurman, an author, a lecturer and a Negro, is dean emeritus of Boston University's campus chapel. Into this book he has packed a lifetime's contemplation on a matter to which no man should have to give a second thought: the color of his face. It is Thurman's personal interpretation of what segregation means to the Negro, to the white man and to the human spirit. His words, though softly spoken, will give comfort to none of the three...
...using what had been the lost-and-found department of a Charlotte, N.C., high school. This month the school that grew from there, with Miss Bonnie pushing it all the way, was designated the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the juridical coequal of the state university branches at Chapel Hill, Greensboro and Raleigh...