Word: nave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapidly becoming one of the world's most ill-kept storehouses of classic art. ¶ In Venice, the parish priest of the 12th century church of San Felice, off the Grand Canal, was forced to stop in mid-Mass last spring as cracks suddenly opened across the church nave walls, showering the congregation with plaster. Near by, the floor of world-famed San Marco is sinking, Santo Stefano is developing its own leaning tower, scores of palazzos and villas are becoming increasingly strapiombati (out of plumb...
...term Republican Representative Walter Judd, 58, has been scared stiff by Democrat Joseph Robbie, a 40-year-old Hubert H. Humphrey type (right down to being, like Humphrey, an import from South Dakota). Although he still has the edge in the state's Fifth District, Walter Judd may nave been hurt by the fact that many of his constituents were thrown out of work by a shutdown of the Minneapolis-Moline Co. farm-implement plant. In Missouri's Sixth District, Democratic In cumbent William Hull Jr., 50, is threatened by Republican Stanley I. Dale Jr., 35, who scored...
Button for Perfection. The current Tate retrospective shows why. While earning a living by turning out popular landscapes and portraits, Spencer has devoted the past 22 years to decorating a "chapel in the air" whose dimensions are nothing less than Cookham itself, with the main street for the nave, the River Thames as "a side aisle." Into it, Spencer fits his Pentecost, Cana and "couples" cycles, filling them out with Bruegelesque pictures of everyday life. Nothing is too mundane to leave out. Says Spencer: "All ordinary acts such as the sewing on of a button are religious things...
...stained glass is used, it is of lighter and simpler design. Gables tend to be high, with long, sloping roofs, as m St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Columbus. This "tent" construction lends itself well to expansion by making it relatively simple to increase the length of the nave...
...record crowd of over 1300 jammed Memorial Church yesterday morning to hear a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr, vice-president of the Union Theological Seminary. The ushers lost count after 1200 worshippers had filled Appleton Chapel as well as the nave and balcony of the Church, where they sat on the stop until a policeman required them to stand so as not to block the aisles...