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EDWARD LANING-Griffin, 611 Madison Ave. at 58th St. Forty-six paintings and drawings, mostly Italian in theme, open this new gallery. Included is an oil called Sanctuario, a spooky look at a Neapolitan side-street shrine. Through...
...never left his presence until 11:30 in the evening." Though he has been dead since 1958, Muljibhai's presence is still felt in another way. His ashes rest in a brass box in a filing cabinet beside Jayant's desk, waiting for a suitable shrine to be built to hold them...
...Jasna Gora monastery, the most sacred shrine in Poland, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski last week blasted grow ing Communist efforts to curtail church activities. Speaking to groups of the more than 100,000 pilgrims gathered to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, the cardinal cited a government ban on organized pilgrimages and pro tested against roadblocks where some pilgrims had been harassed during the trip to the shrine, enduring their own "Way of the Cross." Ostensibly, the ban resulted from a smallpox outbreak in the vicinity, but there was no inter ference with nonreligious tourists...
...Edward IV appears in Shakespeare's first folio, and The Wars of the Roses is not found in his collected works. But both titles are prominently on display this summer at that most sanctified shrine of Shakespeariana, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford on Avon. And although Wars of the Roses is stuffed with lines that Shakespeare never wrote, it has won the unanimous praise of the London critics. "A landmark and beacon in the postwar English theater," said the Daily Mail's usually savage Bernard Levin...
...increase in materialism and selfishness as prosperity makes its mark, and the fear of another nuclear war. Little of the tea-ceremony tranquillity of picture-book Japan comes before the camera's eye, but one scene evokes the flavor of tradition. Junpei makes a pilgrimage to a Buddhist shrine where a procession of monks, carrying enormous torches, winds below a pounding waterfall. Kneeling, he makes his confession: "O Lord Avatar Buddha, what is my part in this life? Am I of use to others? I am lazy, costly, helpless and lewd. But I am a most humanly...