Word: fa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meth odist Scout Leader Clifford John Mer cer, 23, that has been used in a summer camp run by the Detroit Council of Churches. Sample lines: "God . . . God . . . Hey God! Can you hear me? 0 God, sometimes talking to you is like talking to a brick wall . . . Hey, Fa ther, look at the world - will you look at it, Father?" Churches are constantly experimenting with new ways to bring prayer to the peo ple. On their own initiative, dedicated Christian laymen are experimenting with new forms of corporate worship. In some business firms, the prework prayer service is now almost...
...Façades. The force that Kennedy saluted and wooed, that De Gaulle contemplated with "joy," and Khrushchev regards with fury is, in fact, a New Europe-proof of the Continent's ability always to find in the ashes of its destruction the foundation for new triumph. After the moral and material devastation of World War II, perhaps the worst since the Black Death, Europe once again rose up with a new façade, new customs, a thriving culture, and a booming new prosperity that has made it the industrial rival of the two great powers...
Plain Jewel Casket. Placed almost directly in the center of bustling, industrial Coventry, the new cathedral makes no attempt at a dramatic façade. Its massive pink brick walls form a squat, solid fortress; its only spire is a relatively small, openwork metal fleche, topped by a painfully distorted cross (the building's detractors call it Radio Coventry). The long, saw-toothed east wall that runs along Coventry's crowded Priory Street is undecorated except for Sir Jacob Epstein's imposing four-ton figure of St. Michael staring down in triumph and compassion at the chained...
...concrete, but the most striking thing about it is its use of ancient secrets to produce modern magic. It does indeed look something like a temple, neatly set within a plaza and punctuated by sloping terraces, sweeping public walks, and an endless play of light and shadow on a façade so deliberately broken up that it ignores floor lines except at the top. "It has a beautiful scheme," said Architect Walter Gropius...
...weeks since the followers of ex-Dictator Juan D. Perón scored a surprise victory in national elections, Argentina has been a land living under military rule, preserving only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron...