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...former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger described his feelings about Nelson Rockefeller in an eloquent, emotional eulogy at the funeral service in Manhattan's Riverside Church last week. While President Carter, former President Ford, Vice President Mondale, Chief Justice Burger and many other public figures listened from the nave, Kissinger paid tribute to the man who "permeated our lives...
Fifty-four miles outside Paris, Notre Dame de Chartres stands as the epitome of the medieval church builders' faith and skill. The most awesome of their triumphs are the stained-glass windows that tower like blue jeweled cliffs in the dark nave: 2,500 square meters of glass, 5% of the entire surviving legacy of medieval glassworkers...
...after 83 years, the nave and side aisles of the Washington Cathedral have finally been completed. To celebrate the achievement, Queen Elizabeth II and President Ford will dedicate the building known officially as the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. "On the Fourth of July America will celebrate her separation from Great Britain," says Dean Francis B. Sayre Jr., 61, Woodrow Wilson's grandson and a driving force behind the completion of the cathedral. "Then four days later, as there ought to be, there will be this celebration of our reconciliation." The dedication will include festive music...
...third century. Across the street, Andrew Jackson bestrode his rearing bronze horse in the center of the pleasant park dedicated to the visionary Frenchman who proved he also could fight: the Marquis de Lafayette. On the fringe of the peaceful scene stood St. John's Church, the small nave once again echoing with the Christmas carols as it has since John Quincy Adams used to walk over to worship...
...MAGIC IMAGE by Cecil Beaton and Gail Buckland. 304 pages. Little, Brown. $19.95. This is that rarest of items: a photography book in which words are more important than pictures. Authors Beaton, noted stage designer and photographer, and Buckland nave attempted nothing less ambitious than a full history of photography and its practitioners from 1839 to the present. Beaton's introduction is elegant and concise, as are the biographical sketches of more than 200 photographers. Inevitably, gaps and biases appear. Salon and experimental artists receive favored treatment, while the works of such realists as Matthew Brady, Jacob Riis...