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...graceful Parisian skyline will be altered even more drastically-by a proposed 55-story office building that will loom over Saint-Germain-des-Prés like an enormous elliptical cigarette case, dwarf Notre Dame and top out 20 feet higher than the lofty tip of Sacré-Coeur...
Princeton kicked off the concert with an unnecessarily dull interpretation of a selection from Heinrich Schutz's "Symphoniae Sacrae I." The major portion of Princeton's first half was given to a semi-dramatic treatment of selections from the opera "Richard Coeur-de Lion" by Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry. Despite the appropriateness of the light-hearted portions they performed, the choice was unfortunate. The Princeton Glee Club did not have soloists capable of handling the piece technically, with the notable exception of Marion Sleet...
Some Like It Dirty. Inevitably, the big cleanup has divided Paris into two camps: black and white. At the start, white was a dirty word, particularly since Montmartre's white Sacré-Coeur basilica has long been regarded as a bulbous eyesore. When it was suggested that Notre-Dame be scoured, a venerable member of the Paris city council counterproposed: "Paint Sacré-Coeur black instead." Notre-Dame may yet remain the great unwashed building, since architects fear that its 800-year-old lacy filigree would crumble. The pro-blacks argue that character, dignity and age are lost...
London, 1189: the coronation of King Richard Coeur de Lion. Suddenly a Jew, pushing through the assembled throng to present a gift to the new King, jostled a Christian. "Assassins," cried the Christian, and the mob turned savagely on the hated and distrusted Jewish delegation. Beating, kicking and slashing, the Christians surged through the Jewish quarter of London putting the torch to its tinderbox houses. From the capital, the flames of anti-Semitism fanned northward into Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, and finally to the city of York, where in an orgy of bloodletting the city's Jewish population was systematically...
Author Nixon has done a superb job, gives life to her whole cast of characters, and appraises their actions with a strong sense of history. Even in her sober telling, the Calas case sounds like a cri de coeur. Popular history has too often dismissed Voltaire as an acerbic and with drawn pessimist. But in l'affaire Calas, he was supremely heroic in a dark and dangerous time, and Mrs. Nixon sees to it that his memory is well served...