Word: nave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staged last week in St. Bartholomew's nave, Fludde opened with a roll of drums and a booming threat of destruction from God: "I see my people in deede and thoughte are sette full fowle in synne!" (God, unfortunately visible behind the organ, was a large fat man in a blue lounge suit.) While Noah and his sons built an ark (it was carried onstage by an assortment of blue-smocked prop men), Mrs. Noah stood aside and jeered (moaned Noah: "Lord that wemen be crabbed ay!"). The "animals"-a chorus of 70 children-marched two by two into...
...Easter season had a special significance this year for the worshipers at Llandaff Cathedral in Wales. Gathered to witness the hallowing of the cathedral's restored nave, which was almost completely destroyed in a wartime bombing, they also watched the dedication of a striking new statue commissioned for the occasion. The sculptor: Sir Jacob Epstein, the U.S.-born artist who moved to Britain and became one of the world's greatest living artists. See ART, Of Hope and Peace...
...Very Rev. Eryl Stephen Thomas, dean of Llandaff Cathedral in Wales, was categorical. Restoration of the cathedral, which had been virtually destroyed in 1941 by German bombers, was being planned, and the question of a statue of Christ for the nave had been raised. "Only one man can do it," said the dean. "Jacob Epstein...
...took Sculptor Epstein a full year to mold the statue in clay, another year for it to be cast in aluminum. Then, for 18 months, while restoration of the nave proceeded, the figure remained in a crate as Sir Jacob, now 76, fretted that he might never live to see it unveiled. Last week he put aside his plaster-spattered corduroy work clothes, put on a well-worn morning suit and black Homburg and left with his wife for the pre-Easter hallowing of the restored nave and the dedication of his Christ in Majesty...
Shining in the sunlight that flooded the nave towered the figure that dominated the occasion (opposite). Gentle and merciful, yet awesome in its serene majesty, the figure stands 16 ft. tall, high above the floor of the nave, resting against a concrete cylinder that houses the echo organ and at the apex of a concrete parabolic arch that springs from the ground and spans the nave. In the great tradition of Byzantine religious art, the figure is elongated and primitively covered with a boxlike drape. But the head, feet and hands are done with expressive realism, the head forceful...