Word: relics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mass Hall is not the only relic of past executives' inspiration of tradition. Behind the Widener Library, facing Massachusetts Avenue, stands the largest gate in the College. Originally, it was built to be part of the Grand Entrance to the Yard.. An avenue running from the portal to the Charles River was planned, but the Corporation wouldn't buy the property the street was to be built on. The plan was temporarily postponed, but when Massachusetts Avenue was built, plans for the Grand Entrance had to be scrapped...
...story is told by Zizendorf, a neo-Nazi who plans to free Germany from Leevey, its American overlord. Zizendorf lives in a boarding house run by Madame Stella Snow, who symbolizes the eternal Germany of ruthless energy and strength. Among the other boarders are a hungry duke, a relic of the Kaiser-ruled past; a drunken census taker who personifies perennial German officialdom ready to serve any master; Herr Stintz, the typical "little man" whose futility is expressed in nocturnal tuba-playing, and Jutta, Zizendorf's cowlike mistress, who wants only the warmth of love...
Thus bluntly defined was the problem of what the West might do for Asia. What could Asia do for the West? Ceylon made a gracious start. Buddhist priests at Kandy, learning that Bevin has a heart ailment, invited him to view the cherished relic of Buddha's tooth, which they say has curative powers. Usually the tooth is taken from its jeweled cases and exposed only once in seven years...
Hour after hour, as the blocks-long, four-abreast line of patient, pious Mexicans inched forward, a squat, swarthy man moved stolidly along with it. It was worth the trouble, he reflected. It was not every day that a Mexican could see so holy a relic with his own eyes. It was not every day that a Belgian monk, trying to promote peace in the Holy Land, arrived on a world tour with a splinter from Jesucristo's own cross. Dios, what excitement! Red Cross ambulances screamed up & down, carting off women & children trampled in the crush...