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...Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to get all of you inside but we can't, so be patient, we're moving into the chapel for 'Phase Three...
...magenta to crimson, which occurred in 1875, is a case in point. Rather than make any rash decision. Mr. Eliot researched the history of the color, studied the precedents, and began a long series of consultations with alumni and faculty, which all culminated in a mass meeting in Holden Chapel in May. After lengthy argument and debate, a motion to change the color was made. It passed, The Magenta tells us, "by a large majority," although not unanimously, it seems. On May 21, The Crimson made its first appearance...
Meanwhile, Kahn has been professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania for the past 15 years. As he puts it: "I think teaching is essential to me. I feel it is my chapel." Kahn's office, two loft floors on Walnut Street in Philadelphia, is more like the messy drawing studio of an architecture school than the luxurious corporate hives of other leading U.S. architects. Done in raw wood and plasterboard, it is defended by only one secretary. The 71-year-old Kahn can be found in a small room (stacked with battered tomes on architectural history), tossing...
...were often chauffeured out of the camp by a prison official for unauthorized visits to motels, where they conducted business and visited for hours with their girl friends. On other occasions the brothers Alessio are also said to have entertained women in a room off the camp's chapel, where the rites were anything but religious. The high jinks ended after an inmate, rankled by Angelo's attempts to woo his daughter, ratted on them...
Compared with such elaborate efforts, the most artistically significant vestments of modern times-Henri Matisse's chasubles for the chapel he designed and decorated at Vence-seem almost transparently simple: a collage of patches. Yet their airy lucidity of color, their instinctive brightness, attests to a different type, but not a lower intensity of faith...