Word: nave
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...scarlet robes, looking small and bent in the vast nave of London's Westminster Cathedral, was Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 81. For many of his fellow Hungarian exiles, the frail figure celebrating Mass for them remained an abiding symbol of the cold war. In 1949 Mindszenty was convicted of treason, espionage and black marketing by the Communist regime in Hungary. He spent seven years in solitary confinement, enjoyed four days of freedom during the uprising in 1956 and then, when the Russians returned, remained for 15 more years in seclusion in the U.S. embassy. Since 1971, the former Primate...
...Religion: "There are more than 800,000 Roman Catholics in North Viet Nam, and they still worship freely. Some old customs prevail: Men and women sit on opposite sides of the nave of Hanoi's cathedral, their bicycles clogging the aisles leading to the altar...
Through the organ is unsuccessful usually, the placement was well-suited to the church's architecture. By locating the unit within the small left transept facing the rear sound is easily projected to the back of the nave, encircling the entire congregation. The registrations are those of a baroque organ with many mixtures available over a presumably powerful fundamental. The reed stops tone is too often a nasal shriek. This was not helped by some faulty voicing of the individual pipes. But the biggest disappointment is the pedal division. Even the thirty-two-foot Untersatz the loudest stopped-pipe normally...
With any concert involving organ in Mem Church there are serious problems for the audience. The Fisk instrument has two entirely separate characters. In Appleton Chapel, it is a magnificently powerful baroque organ. But for the majority of listeners in the nave of the Churc, the top-heavy registrations are not backed with sufficient fundamental tones to carry through sucha a large structure. The result is exactly what happened last Wednesday: the small group in Appleton is far more satisfied with the playing than the bulk of the audience who are listening, essentially, to a scaled-down version. The performers...
...most exclusive clubs, the elders have an edge. About 50 Senators nave small, separate office "hideaways" n the Capitol, where relaxation as well as business can be pursued in privacy, "newcomer" poses a hideaway problem: Hubert Humphrey. Said a Rules Committee staff member: "On the face...