Word: crucifixes
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...flagrantly artificial plants for the garden of a supreme artificer. In addition, the tree which Beatriz calls her brother is made to resemble a stick figure of a man with his head at a tilt. Later, behind Beatriz drinking from the vial, the tree looms like a crucifix. The lighting (designed by James Meyer) creates an illusion of transparency as the Messenger blends in and out of patches of light. Although the set (designed by Elizabeth Clark) allows Juan to fall into Rappaccini's garden from his garret, it also places the needlessly realistic bedroom distractingly in the center...
...months during 1969 the interior of the 78-year-old St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Hicksville, Long Island, was radically transformed. Two side altars and their six statues, two more statues on the main altar, the devotional candles and the altar rail were all removed. Most dramatically, a new crucifix was hung behind the altar. Instead of a suffering Jesus in traditional style, worshipers now saw a modernist risen Christ, his arms raised in triumph...
...instigator of these changes-all of which were in the spirit of Vatican decrees-was the parish's new pastor, Father Frederic Harrer, now 56. Nonetheless, the new look, especially the crucifix, jolted St. Ignatius' parishioners, many of them policemen, firemen and other civil servants. Some simply quit attending Mass. "I see a lot of faces not around any more" says one parishioner. But most of those who remained came to accept-even favor-the new church interior and other innovations. "When all the changes started I was kind of confused and disillusioned at times," says Public School...
...said, was a feeling that "wells up from a deeper level of the psyche." As for man's relationship to that sacred force, Toynbee once used a metaphor from his own dreams. In this dream, he said, he had seen himself holding onto the foot of the crucifix high above the altar of the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth in Yorkshire. Then he heard a voice call out in flawless Latin: "Amplexus expecta "-Cling and wait...
...tent. Anyway, the shack that served as rest rooms was the wonderful thing about the place. Absolutely spotless, immaculate, and furnished in Alaskan dentist's office splendour. Shivering from the woods with pine-smeared toothbrush, you enter a room with a mirror in the shape of a crucifix. The walls are neatly papered with church directories, to worship at the place of your choice, which in this case was every Lutheran Church within 100 miles. No temples. Also, shelves packed tight with ancient copies of Reader's Digest, and a calender or two sponsored by the very same publication. Best...