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From the far-flung corners of the Moslem world, pilgrims last week converged on Mecca, city of the Prophet's birth, where they would make the ritual seven circuits around the shrouded monument and enter to kiss the Black Stone handed down by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham. If they took time to notice, they might have detected a change in the air. Along the six-lane highway that leads inland to Mecca from the Red Sea port of Jiddah, pilgrims were ministered to by mobile hospitals, reservoirs of ice water, and troops of Moslem Boy Scouts...
...Wren nearly 150). The French government has yet to commission him to design so much as a school or a hospital, and the first Le Corbusier building in the U.S.-a $1,500,000 Visual Arts Center at Harvard-is only now getting started. He began as the architectural prophet of the machine age, the poet of the mass-produced. Yet his recent buildings in India are in a sense almost handmade. He was all logic in his city planning, almost wholly geometric in his early houses; but his newer Ronchamp Chapel and the monastery of La Tourette are romantic...
...Prophet Without Honor
...final insult to Munch, his house was demolished last year because it was considered ugly, whereas Ibsen's study is preserved intact in Oslo's Folkmuseum, and Grieg's house, in Bergen, is a national shrine. The often-quoted ". . . A prophet is not without honor save in his own country"* has never been more appropriate...
...hold over her people did not end with her death. In one scene, the Roman Emperor Constantine III (612-641 A.D.) marches into Monza, determined to sweep the Lombards out of Italy. But he pauses long enough to consult a bearded old hermit whom the townspeople called "The Prophet." The Prophet learns from the Archangel St. Michael, from St. Peter and John the Baptist that any attempt to capture Monza would meet disaster, because the piety of Theodolinda had won the town heavenly protection. The Emperor decides to take his war elsewhere. With that timely save, Queen Theodolinda passes from...