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Witch doctors and nationalist prophets have confused and corroded the congregation. Recently, one of the local splinter-sect "messiahs" announced that he meant to establish headquarters on the island, and the missionary priests resorted to a theatrical gesture. They divided the nave down the center with a row of benches, then called on all who dared deny the church to remain on the far side of the barrier. For seconds no one stirred. At last some of the oldest members of the congregation moved to the other side, and slowly, most of the rest followed...
...Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), a British-born Jew of Dutch parentage, was a founding father of the U.S. labor movement and first president of the A.F.L. His window, at the rear of the south nave over the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, is dedicated to artisans and craftsmen. Among the eight scenes are Noah building the Ark, the building of King Solomon's temple and the building of Washington Cathedral...
...solemnity. It was the sable-tongued voice of Richard Dimbleby, a tall, benign, Pickwickian commentator so unfailingly proper that he all but calls the thing in his hand a Michael. Dropping sterling syllables into the air from his glass-paneled aerie 60 ft. above Westminster Abbey's nave, Dimbleby lived up not only to his reputation as England's best commentator, but to his nicknames-"Bishop Dimbleby," "Dick Dimbleboom," and "The Royal Plum Pudding...
...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...
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...