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Architecturally, Oxford's Balliol College is a Victorian Gothic pile of no great distinction; in vintage its statutes are junior to Merton and University colleges. Yet it sits at the head of Oxford's intellectual table-a proud hatchery of Prime Ministers, archbishops, cardinals and viceroys. Of Balliol's 400-odd students, 20% regularly win first-class honors on final exams-a record unmatched by any other Oxford college, not even haughty Magdalen...
...sense of openness to the world. But Paul's aperturismo would not be John's. Angelo Roncalli was a warm and intuitive man, with a fatherly love of men rather than ideas. The new Pope, says one Spanish Catholic layman who has worked with him, "is a Gothic priest not only in physical appearance but in spiritual formation. He has a subtle intelligence and a strong hand." Subtle, strong-handed Pope Paul VI will unquestionably differ from John in his stand on the great questions that face his church...
This might have been the reaction anywhere, but it was predictable in the particular community where Play opened, the ancient Danube town of Ulm, where the municipal theater rivals the famed Gothic cathedral as a source of civic pride. Most German cities and towns think of their municipal theaters as U.S. cities regard their libraries-a permanent and serious public responsibility. There are 130 in West Germany. Audiences attend them with solemn zeal for Kultur, a turn of mind that ignores entertainment for the sake of education. The result is a theater unique in the world...
...with Architect Guillermo Rosell. It is a pure hyperbolic paraboloid whose slender edges seem to float free and whose roof slopes from each end down to a skylight. Guarded by a tapering cross, it stands upon a lonely hill, surging toward the sky-a modern version of the mighty Gothic reach...
...easy. Christianity "will have to 'travel light.' Christian institutions, ministries, images, effects must be studied: Which are very important? Which are accidental and can be left behind?" In Marty's view, the accidentals include many of the most apparent artifacts of American religion: the expensive Gothic church built for community prestige, the comfortable words of moralistic sermons, the check to a charity that substitutes for personal engagement with modern problems...