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...Shelter (Houghton Mifflin; 279 pages; $21.95), Phillips continues to ladle on the prose: "In the splintering pour of the storm there is such a silence, like a church or a cell, a cloister, empty, and rain courses down the broken glass of the block-paned windows. Some of the jagged glass juts up like tongues, other panes are shattered intact, jeweled in their frames in webbed configurations." You know -- it was raining...
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a friend and patron of John Singer Sargent. She went to Spain in 1888, and it fascinated her--she said of the country: "Here one feels existence." She soon began collecting the artwork that now adorns the Spanish Cloister of the Museum. Her cousin gave her "El Jaleo," the focal point of this area. Later, Sargent presented his patron with the sketches for this painting...
Educated at the Huguenots' Gray Cloister High School in Berlin, where he studied the viola, De Maiziere had to abandon his musical career when he developed a neural impairment in his left arm. He then took up legal studies and eventually became known for his defense of conscientious objectors and other dissidents. Slight of build and speaking with a soft lisp, De Maiziere, 50, is a religious man who has never demonstrated an appetite for public life. But he answered the call when he was asked last fall to cleanse the CDU of the stigma it bore from decades...
...wrote. In another panel Sassetta showed Aquinas asking Christ what he thought of his book on the nature of the Eucharist, and receiving the approval of the Supreme Editor. The Sienese sophisticate would also have connected the well visible in the courtyard with the sacrament of baptism, and the cloister itself with the Earthly Paradise. For a modern viewer it is the exquisitely ordered space that counts, those intricacies of dull green, tan and gold, with the black blade of the saint's cappa sharply anchoring them...
Stephen Cochran, assistant dean of students for Princeton University, said Cloister has been dry since February 6, and other clubs have made their drinking policies more stringent...