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Source of the explosive proposal was a committee of 30 Anglican and Presbyterian churchmen, established in 1954 to examine the idea of a merger, after decades of mellowing relations between the two churches. This spring the committee hopefully recalled the uniting of Anglicans. Presbyterians, and other Protestant denominations in South India (TIME, Oct. 13, 1947), unanimously advocated the merger. "Disunity . . ." wrote the committee, "spells a deeply damaging contradiction between message and life . . . The church cannot...
Near-Idolatry. Membership of the united churches would be impressive (Anglicans: 3,000,000 in England, 55,000 in Scotland; Presbyterians: 1,300,000 in Scotland. 70,000 in England). But the notion of worshiping with Sassenach ritual is still unsettling in the Highlands, and the idea of church rule by bishops really provokes the independent Scots. The Economist spelled out their indignation: "In the real split between Low Church and Anglican Church attitudes-the pomp and circumstance which Anglicans regard as a display of beauty for the greater glory of God, and which older Presbyterians regard as near-idolatry...
...Wallace show to make a full retraction of Cohen's vituperation and an apology to those it victimized. Wallace said that he was sorry too. Nobody suggested publicly how the show might avoid such incidents in the future. But Wallace is pondering a lawyer's idea that potentially dangerous interviews be recorded in advance...
...Beehive's director, Dr. G. Van der Wai, an unabashed enthusiast for things made in the U.S.A., turned naturally to the U.S. for an architect. Breuer responded with a clear, simple idea: "Essentially a department store is a big, empty box built around a central circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there...
...Luftwaffe and the decision of the Rotterdam planning commission to incorporate the beneficiaries of those misses-two surviving buildings-into the pattern of the widened street, making it necessary to bring the building line forward at each street corner. To avoid an L-shaped building, Breuer hit on the idea of letting sculpture take care of the bulge...