Word: processional
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On the opening day of the Vatican Council's fourth session last week, more than 1,500 Roman Catholic prelates assembled for a march of penance from the Church of the Holy Cross to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, half a mile away. As the chill autumnal dusk darkened...
Half-Mile Walk. The unprecedented act of penitence, undertaken by representatives of every corner of Roman Catholicism, implied a corporate acknowledgment of the church's sins ? an admission of humility for "the spotless bride of Christ" that would have been unthink able a decade ago. Yet, instead of sackcloth...
A few months later an audience of war-strained Parisians, prepared to be outraged by the horrors of "modern art," sighed with relief when Picasso's great curtain for the ballet Parade rolled down portraying a delightful procession of circus folk. But when 10-ft. figures decked out in...
Unready Draft. Kazantzakis died eight years ago at 74. His heirs have spent the intervening years extending his legend with carefully doled out translations of unpublished texts. Report to Greco-is the latest entry in the lengthy procession, which is by no means over: his widow Helen and his friend...
Hanging Gardens. Though basically a rectangle, Rudolph's $4,000,000 factory presents a procession of profiles as the viewer walks around it. By externalizing what most architects bury within a building-staircases, heating pipes and air ducts-the architect has both opened the interior to freer use and...