Word: sanctum
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After a semester and a summer of blaring stereos, screaming power tools and stares from confused Quincy Street passers-by, Parlato’s accumulated experiences over five summers in China blossomed in the sanctum he built at the Carpenter Center...
Parlato says he was pleased to discover that the west wall of the inner-sanctum is illuminated by the sun. Parlato hopes the utter calm of the space will be brought out by the silhouettes and the sound of feet on gravel...
Beneath the brass plating, the board's impact is harder to discern. Though its quarterly, two-day sessions take place in Rumsfeld's inner sanctum, the board's two full-time employees run the operation from another floor. Perle sets the agenda and briefers. The members take no votes, do not strive to reach a consensus and write no reports. Instead, they wrap up each session sharing what they have learned with Rumsfeld, who is free to ignore what he is told...
...inner sanctum, choked with chanting de- votees, is barred to nonbelievers. But it's possible to gaze down on its gold-plated lotus domes from the second-story window of the Udai Silk shop across the street. Even from the relative concealment of the silken perch, cameras are still strictly forbidden. Once a customer managed to sneak in a shot, but the telltale flash sent police running upstairs. "They grabbed the camera, and ripped out the film," says proprietor Udai. The view is free?that is if you can resist the eager sales pitch. The slightest flicker of interest...
...eyes of British law. On a civic level, even Hiroshima, my home for eight years and, according to its tourist literature "the international city of peace," denies Korean conscripts killed in the A-bomb blast a monument in Peace Memorial Park because its foreign presence would sully the sanctum's purity. "Internationalization," as oft-quoted a mantra here as anywhere, means little on street level beyond flag-bunting, expressway signs in English and more Starbucks franchises...