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...whiter the sheet, and the canopy grander...
...Editor Marguerite Johnson, who wrote the cover story, remembers her stay in Moscow's massive glass and aluminum Rossia Hotel during a Russian trip two years ago. "It was often filled with Soviet technocrats then," she recalls, "but I couldn't help feeling that someone had a grander vision in mind...
...District of Columbia policemen who reacted very fast; a posse of persistent journalists; the courageous judge, John Sirica, who reminds us what an independent judiciary means; the looming figure of Senator Sam Ervin, whose impending hearings surely helped loosen various tongues. In short, the American democratic "system," an even grander and more important thing than the presidency, is Still running...
...Vonnegut, who is more and more becoming a central character in his own novels, seems to conclude on an even grander destructive note, namely the destruction of his own fictional universe. "I am cleansing and renewing myself for the very different sorts of years to come," he tells his creation, Kilgore Trout, when they meet at Midland City. "Under similar spiritual conditions, Count Tolstoy freed his serfs. Thomas Jefferson freed his slaves. I am going to set at liberty all the literary characters who have served me so loyally during my writing career." It is, perhaps, the ultimate goal...
Dazzling. Many mourn the passing of the grander style of vestments, since, like stained glass, it added an element of visual beauty to the ritual of worship. At the peak of the craft, medieval artisans in particular produced designs of extraordinary richness and delicacy. One of the richest collections in the Western Hemisphere is that of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art from which TIME herewith offers a sampling...