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Cinema is for us the most important of the arts," declared Lenin in 1922, and not since Pope Julius ii commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling had the proclamation of a chief of state resulted in such a sunburst of high art. A troika of young film maker-theoreticians-Sergei Eisenstein, V.I. Pudovkin and Alexander Dovzhenko-seized the movie toy and remade it into a sophisticated machine that dazzled the world intelligentsia, even as it instructed the Russian proletariat. As long as the party hierarchy was amused too, all was well. But in 1924 Stalin rephrased the famous...
...Noted for his 12-volume edition of the "Interpreters Bible" and his invitation to women to attend services at Appleton Chapel, George A. Buttrick, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Emeritus and former minister at Memorial Church, died in late January...
...could preach a better sermon than those that I had been brought up with. Professor James Hardy Ropes, a father of a classmate of ours, was my faculty adviser. I didn't see him much, and I think he gave up on me. I went voluntarily to Appleton Chapel a few times and listened to President Lowell read the scriptures. My father, who was of the Class of 1901, had had to go to chapel every morning. President Eliot read the Bible lessons in those days. By the time of the November hour exams I was so busy studying...
Dorothy M. Bayles Chapel Hill...
...purchased a medieval chateau near Aix-en-Provence called Vauvenargues. "I've bought Cézanne's view!" he said. He spent most of his final years, however, at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, a hilltop villa at Mougins on the Riviera, named after a chapel that once stood on the site. He worked until dawn on the last day of his life, April...