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White House historian and architectural consultant William Seale has always advocated closing Pennsylvania Avenue to make an expansive President's Park, as intended by Washington's original designer, Pierre L'Enfant. Seale would put gates and fences around the entire area embracing Lafayette Park, the White House grounds and the Ellipse behind, then add walkways and plants. Visitors could be filtered through the gates and see unmatched vistas of the grounds. Most of the more than 15 million visitors who come to Washington want to see the White House in some manner, but fewer than a tenth of them...
...think the Bible is literally true," says Bishop John Spong of the Episcopal diocese of Newark, New Jersey, answering a question scholars have tugged at for the past 200 years. Spong, who is invariably described as the enfant terrible of liberal Protestant theology, writes books with such titles as Resurrection: Myth or Reality and Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism that are guaranteed to make conservatives growl. "The Bible also says the woman is usually the property of a man. I don't believe that either," Spong declares. "The Bible says homosexual people should be put to death...
...United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, more than a dozen years in planning and construction, has been built at the edge of the mall, L'Enfant's expanse that is a kind of spacious American myth-yard. There the eye sweeps across the Capitol and Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial, the white marbles softened at this time of year by dogwood and cherry blossoms. The mall bespeaks 18th century Enlightenment come to America, a certain lucidity and ideal. The Holocaust museum is like the 20th century Endarkenment, a dense, evil mystery set down in the New World, an ocean...
...power to surge ahead. He gets looser and more liberal with the shots he tries, and pretty soon he is hitting shots everywhere. He does not play percentage tennis." That unorthodox brilliance was never better displayed than on Centre Court at Wimbledon in 1975 when Ashe faced the enfant terrible of tennis, Jimmy Connors. Connors swaggered onto the court as the bookmakers' darling. Ashe turned him into an unexpected runner-up with a four-set lesson in pinpoint placement...
...research project has also cut out some much loved paintings, once considered essential masterpieces, milestones in his art, like Berlin's Man with the Golden Helmet. This has caused tremendous indignation in some quarters -- a fuss comparable to the moment when Bernard Berenson made his name as an enfant terrible by downgrading half the supposed canon of Lorenzo Lotto nearly 100 years...