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...Turkish citizen again, Athenagoras has worked hard to make friends with Turkey's leading politicians. He visited the Turkish director of the Hagia Sophia Museum-the first time an Ecumenical Patriarch had set foot within that 6th century shrine of Christendom since it was captured by the Turks in 1453. This was his "wordless answer" to both the extreme Moslems who want it converted to a mosque and the extreme Orthodox who clamor for its reconversion to a church. To newsmen who plagued him for an explanation, he said: "In the time of Byzantium, Hagia Sophia was open...
...patriarchate is a door that is never opened. Before it, in 1822 the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregorius V was hanged on the orders of Sultan Mahmoud II, who accused him of conspiring with the Greeks in a revolt against the Ottoman Empire. For generations, the Closed Door was an Orthodox shrine to the ancient enmity. Under Athenagoras, the door is still closed, but now, as an Orthodox official recently explained: "The Closed Door is a memorial for a dead Patriarch, not a reminder of the way he died...
...sound bitter it is because may familiar at the Shrine of Savoy begrudges all time taken from the libretto and score. Even a biographical version by the pair themselves wouldn't be well received under the circumstances--unless, of course, it was in the form of a G & S operetta...
...ruse, a front, a deception placed there by the administration to lead us away from the realization of the thunderous truth: that modern architecture, the creeping cancer of our industrial technology, has in fact captured a corner of the Harvard Yard, the nucleus of New World intellect, world shrine of ivied Victorian architecture. Don't let that little "old" lamp-post deceive you, don't let its tattered respectability hide from your eyes the hideous sore that rears scant yards away...
Later, if the night is still, shepherds and soldiers on both sides hear the men at the shrine singing "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace...