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...cradle-robbers bring Sprow and Baer to Kirkland B-52, where the hosts, members of the Harvard Model Senate, have modeled their party after—get this—the Roman Senate. At the door, Meagan M. Marks ’05 eats grapes from the hands of toga-clad doorkeeper W. Lucien Smith ’03, though she quickly pounces on FM, seizing the opportunity to give her 22 cents on the Harvard social life. “Being a sophomore is sooooo much cooler,” she explains enthusiastically. “There?...
Even less well known to most Americans is the breadth of his following. Jews, who consider him their own, are largely unaware of Abraham's presence in Christianity, which accepts his Torah story as part of the Old Testament and honors him in contexts ranging from the Roman Catholic Mass ("Look with favor on these offerings and accept them as once you accepted ... the sacrifice of Abraham") to a Protestant children's song ("Father Abraham had many sons/And I am one of them...
...earth, and the gray rock mass of Golgotha (or Calgary) inside, the most Christian place in the church. Traditions dating back to the 300s A.D. record that Jesus was crucified here. Just above the rock's Plexiglas-protected expanse is a chapel shared by the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. The Catholic side boasts three mosaics. In the center is Mary Magdalene; to the left is Christ, removed from the Cross; and to the right is none other than ... Abraham, about to slay Isaac. Notes Feiler: "The image of Jesus sprawled on the unction stone is nearly identical...
...national characteristic to leave things to the end. The work will be done. A relaxed national character is not what's causing most delays. Protests are the problem. Dig nearly anywhere in Athens and you come across antiquities, like the fragments from a second century A.D. Roman aqueduct built by the Emperor Hadrian discovered on the site of the Olympic Village. After delays caused by negotiations with the department of antiquities, Olympic officials decided to include the ancient ruins as part of the village's design. Want to build a sailing center on the site of the Battle of Marathon...
Church design may be the only kind of architecture that you learn about in the nursery. "Here's the church, here's the steeple..." Well, here is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the immense new Roman Catholic church for the city of Los Angeles. So where's the steeple? And where is the central doorway you expect from a great sacred space? And what happened to the stained-glass windows and the crowds of ecclesiastical statuary that a Catholic church has always brought to mind? There have been many modern churches before this one. Even...