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...wonderful article on the controversial but gorgeous Air Force Academy Chapel. The color reproductions, layout, and representation were excellent...
...Empire as a competition-proof common market that would forever absorb British manufactured goods and supply cheap raw materials in exchange. But it never worked that way. In 1962, as Richard Cobden protested in the early 19th century, the Commonwealth is, in purely economic terms, "but a gorgeous and ponderous appendage to swell our ostensible grandeur without improving our balance of trade...
...revolutionary talks better about music (in interviews with Protege Conductor Robert Craft) than he composes. Although, in the U.S. at least, Stravinsky remains the most widely played living composer, the works that turn up most often in the concert halls are early masterpieces like Firebird and Petronchka, with their gorgeous colors, their richly varied rhythms and brilliant orchestrations...
Sweet Slavery. Southern writers cultivated their own myth as assiduously as Northerners. Theirs was a knightly ideal of chivalry lifted from the novels of Sir Walter Scott. Ignoring the squalor in the real South, they populated fictitious plantations with gorgeous women and jolly slaves. Romantic hyperbole was commonplace. Wrote Poet Sydney Lanier to his wife after 9½ years of marriage: "My heart's Heartsease, My sweet Too-sweet, if I could wrap thee in a calyx of tender words still would they seem but like the prickly husk in respect of thee, thou Rose, within." Southerners spun elaborate...
...That was a most gorgeous article, and it will prove to be most informative to my pupils, especially during these months preceding the coming Vatican Council, when my boys are asking hundreds of questions about the makeup of the church's organization...