Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jaclyn be saved? As the doctors go to work, Bosley and the other two Angels retire to the hospital chapel, where a closeup shows a tearful Cheryl Ladd whispering, "Oh, please, God, please." Enter, after a commercial break, a doctor announcing Jaclyn's miraculous recovery: "It was the damnedest thing...
Then-President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, was a regular worshipper at the chapel's morning services, and he hoped that a new, more esthetically attractive chapel would promote greater student interest and participation. But both students and alumni criticized the University's choice of memorial, pointing out that there was already a chapel (Appleton) in the Yard and that it was certainly adequate for the small number of students who attended services there...
...outside the memorial room, toward the back of the chapel, there is now a separate memorial plaque for those to whom the church could not be dedicated: "Harvard University has not forgotten her sons, Fritz Daur, Konrad Delbruck, Kurt Peters, Max Schneider, who under opposite standards gave their lives for their country...
Maintaining the spiritual element in his life "is a real effort," John explains. "It's much easier for me to walk into Draper knowing I might face 30 days in Billerica than it is to sit quietly in a chapel and pray and meditate for 20 minutes." But he tries to guard himself against what he calls "an idolatrous activism" by drawing upon the example of Dorothy Day, Dom Helder Camarra, and other Catholics in the activist tradition...
...extreme detail, near and far, as a sort of metaphysical machine, a generator of intricate meanings about the life of the universe: birth, death, renewal, metamorphosis. His ambition (never fulfilled) was to do a cycle of religious murals, Four Times of Day; they would be installed in a special chapel and would form, Runge hoped, the nucleus of a new religious cult. The surviving studies for them, like Morning, 1803, are remarkably hard to decipher as doctrine. Yet that blue world of twining blossoms-Runge's amaryllises and lilies are the ancestors of art nouveau-of genii and weird...