Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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• AUSTRIA. Jaywalking tourists in Vienna should happily pay up if a cop demands 10 shillings (40?) on the spot; the fine is perfectly legal, and protest only causes arrest. Viennese streetcars are sacred; even driving autos on the tracks is illegal. Austria also bans the wearing of all foreign...
The program of the Byzantine-Russian Liturgical Choir's Sunday night concert noted that "because of the sacred nature of the music the audience is requested not to applaud." But if the nature of the music made applause inappropriate, the quality of the performance made it all but compulsory.
Sacred Silhouette. Such sweet some things, combined with Corbu's world wide reputation (TIME cover, May 5, 1961), inclined Venice's municipal hospital head to invite Corbu to replace the old hospital of Sts. John and Paul.
The only convenience that the Renaissance structure now has is its location just across the lagoon from the cemetery. But since it, like everything else, is a monument, the new $11 million hospital will rise elsewhere: in the slummish San Giobbe sector, where the city slaughterhouse stands, and also the...
Turning from things secular to sacred has plenty of precedents. Within the past decade, U.S. seminaries have been getting a striking and measurable increase in applications from men in their 30s and 40s who want to abandon successful secular careers in everything from baseball to business. About one-third of...