Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Education Secretary William Bennett, "is arguably the No. 1 domestic concern of the American people." Presidential candidates have taken note. Last Friday, a few days after school bells called students to class around the country, a roster of White House hopefuls gathered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for earnest seminars on the subject. In separate forums, all seven active Democratic campaigners and Republicans Jack Kemp and Pete du Pont debated the single topic of how to boost the failing grades being given to American education...
Ando's buildings are precise and almost ostentatiously austere. He is seeking purity and purification. His town houses in Tokyo and Osaka are jewel- box bunkers, the concrete facades rigorously designed compositions of door, windows, fabrication scars and joints. The Protestant chapel (1985) on the top of Mount Rokko, outside Kobe, was the perfect Ando commission. "The process of preparing ourselves for the spirituality of religion takes time," he says, and so the entrance to the chapel is a colonnaded tunnel. The chapel itself is a deep, 24-ft. by 24-ft. concrete box, with one side an expanse...
Senator Robert Dole was on his trip to Nicaragua, and the Secretary of Transportation had Sunday afternoon to herself. She left their Watergate apartment and drove to the National Cathedral. After pacing the quiet grounds, she headed for the chapel where she and Dole were married 13 years ago. Sitting on an outdoor bench, she reflected on her marriage and her career. "I couldn't help thinking back over the years, and all the experiences and joys," she recalls, a wistful tone creeping into her honeyed Southern accent. "This is a time now when, you know, I have to really...
...Connecticut, the department of correction is experimentally using two National Guard barracks as a temporary jail for drunken drivers. In Missouri and Oregon, prison authorities have renovated mental hospitals to house convicted felons. In New Jersey, where inmates have been sleeping in gymnasiums, classrooms and a chapel, officials are considering buying a World War II Navy troopship to use as a prison. Meanwhile, New York City is readying a second decommissioned Staten Island ferryboat to moor alongside the Vernon C. Bain, which has housed up to 162 prisoners on the East River since March...
...other university presidents see things differently. They recognize that the nature of society and the independence of their students would not permit them to bring back the days of chapel services of strict dress codes even if they wanted to. No fair-minded college president wants to be a moral imperialist imposing his values on those less in lightened than he, Instead, mirroring the philosophy behind his undergraduate Core Curriculum, Bok wants to teach students how to think about ethical questions and problems rather than what to think...