Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alberto Giacometti in 1939; a $1,250 gold-plated bronze reproduction of a voluptuous female torso from a bronze cast sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. A slow mover is the $7,500 copy of the Rodin nude. Rockefeller, who has been collecting since the 1930s, invested $3.5 million in the project and admits he will close it down if it is not turning a profit. Says he: "I couldn't do it as a philanthropy...
Inevitably, the project came under fire, especially during the later years of construction. A religious journal complained that "a pilgrim church cannot spend its time, thought and money on monumental buildings." An anonymous critic painted on an outside wall: "Christ was poor and homeless. Two-thirds of humanity starve...
...graffito distressed the cathedral's Dean, the Very Rev. Edward Patey, a clergyman known for his social conscience, but he defended the project forthrightly. "It might be called wasted space, wasted heat, by some," he says today, "but there is an instinct that one aspect of worship of God is to be aware of our smallness in proportion to his majesty. The medieval builders felt this. To go to worship God is not just like going out to buy a packet of fish and chips." As for the cost, Dean Patey has no apologies: "Compared with what people spend...
Patey concedes that Liverpool's Cathedral was built only because it was started long ago: to launch a similar project now "would not fit the mood of the church today." But, he adds, "we have here in the work of stonemasons, stained glass artists, carpenters, sculptors, organ builders, metal workers, clear evidence that in an age which too easily tolerates the shoddy and second-rate, we can find craftsmen who can match any who have gone before. I'm glad that Merseyside has actually completed one of the great buildings of the world in a century...
...happened, the Chinese, eager for an African foothold, had already granted a $460 million interest-free loan to Zambia and neighboring Tanzania to finance a new 1,160-mile rail link running northeast from Zambia's copper mines to Tanzania's Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam. The project, built by 51,000 Chinese and African laborers, was first called the Great Uhuru (Swahili for freedom) Railway, renamed Tazara (for Tanzania-Zambia Railway) and was completed in 1976. Tazara should have provided Zambia with a new lifeline. Instead, it has become as useful as, well, Ian Smith. Last week...