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...huge basilica. Some Episcopalians have publicly questioned whether their church ought to spend any more money on the impressive Washington Cathedral, which has cost $30 million since it was started 60 years ago, and will need at least $20 million more to finish. Sensitive to this kind of com plaint, New York's Bishop Horace Donegan last year announced that construction on his massive Cathedral of St. John the Divine would be indefinitely suspended...
...inaccurately-typecast as rock singers: McCartney and Lennon's Eleanor Rigby, Paul Simon's Dangling Conversation, and Tim Hardin's If You Were a Carpenter. But a French song, titled La Colombe (The Dove), provides the most haunting impact, for it is a beautifully put plaint against the slaughter of wars...
Since the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic last year, news men who covered the fighting there have laid down a barrage of hastily written books about the crisis, mostly echoing Senator William Fulbright's plaint that Washington was guilty of "overreaction." The most cogent and authoritative account of the affair, Overtaken by Events (Doubleday), was published last week, adding significant ly to history's vindication of President Johnson's action. Its author: John Bartlow Martin, 51, U.S. ambassador to Santo Domingo from 1962 to 1964, and, as Johnson's special envoy...
...jumping Chicago scene today assures the vitality of the blues for a long time to come. A new vanguard of city-bred youths is already cropping up in the lesser-known bands and outlying clubs, catching the beat, learning the notes, taking up again the ancient, universal plaint...
...murder is horrifying, but the work of such as Charles Whitman or the Chicago nurse-killer produces an almost hysterical quality of shock and dread. Numbers of dead alone cannot entirely account for it. Nor can the unsettling plaint of Austin's police chief that "this kind of thing could have happened anywhere." What is ultimately so disturbing about the 23 lives so taken is that nearly all were snuffed out for no reason and at random. In almost every case, they were unnamed and unknown to their killers, the incidental and impersonal casualties of uncharted battlefields that exist only...