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...most ancient wooden building in the world, the 1,300-year-old Golden Hall of Japan's Horyuji Monastery, is unheated and wretchedly uncomfortable in cold weather. So when government painters worked through the winter to copy the shrine's twelve famous murals of the Buddhas and their disciples, the foresighted brought along a few electric heating pads to sit on. One evening a fortnight ago, one of the artists forgot to flip the switch before he left. Next morning, a party of schoolchildren on their way to visit the shrine saw clouds of smoke billowing from...
...Japanese, the Golden Hall with its Buddhas has been as important a national shrine as Mount Vernon to Americans. In Tokyo the Minister of Education, Yasumaro Shimojo, was so distressed (even though the hall itself could be restored) that he offered to resign. In Cambridge, Mass., where last week Fogg Museum officials hung twelve full-scale photographs of the murals to show the public what had been destroyed, Oriental art experts glumly compared the artistic loss to what the Western art world would lose in a fire in the Sistine Chapel...
...will of God. A sample result: Henry's legal vengeance on St. Thomas of Canterbury, who had been martyred nearly 400 years before by courtiers of Henry II for upholding a different principle (the authority of Church against King). "He was not content with plundering [Canterbury's] shrine and conveying its wealth in 26 wagons to London, but he burnt the bones of the saint, mingled the ashes with earth, and dissipated them from the mouth of a cannon...
...proselytes that Russia, through the years, has been a source of scientific light and not (as was generally the case) a dismal swamp of scientific darkness. From this premise it is easy to argue that the U.S.S.R. is still a source of scientific light, and thus a sort of shrine of wisdom for the world...
Although Drvaric and Rodis face a full week of double practice sessions after they hit Alabama, Gannon must play in the BC varsity basketball game on December 21. Right after the Shrine game, Chip must leave for Kansas City to catch the first of four basketball games there. Chip says, "We were going to leave from New York on December 26 anyway, so it won't make much difference...