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Bourgeois got Washington's architectural sculptor John J. Earley to do the external ornamentation. Bourgeois did not live to see the results: he died in 1930, on the Temple grounds. Wrote he of the shrine: "It is too sacred to me to try to utter words about it. . . . Most people who appreciate this 'new art' look to me as the creator of it, but the One Who did it, they do not know-that One was the Blessed Perfection...
William Randolph Hearst, monarch of a communications dynasty (16 newspapers, eight magazines, four radio stations, one news service, one feature syndicate, one photo service), art collector, exponent of yellow journalism, worshiper at circulation's shrine, reporter, reformer, politico, columnist and multimillionaire, was 80 last week. For a man of his means and mightiness he celebrated modestly...
...stooping effigy of Jesus, with jointed arms hanging from a green cotton dress, had human hair on its head. A small naked statue, honored as a protector against syphilis, sat in a shrine made from an old oilcan. A portable sepulcher held a recumbent Christ, whose bloodstained jaw and neck could be moved puppetwise by strings. These crude but striking effigies formed part of an exhibition of Religious Folk Art of the Southwest which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...bright light of a newly risen full moon sprinkled the steps of the temple Lakshmi Narain Mandir at Delhi. The temple bells clanged loud & long. Before the shrine stood a priest in a massive turban and with the holy mark gleaming on his forehead. The bells and the drums and cymbals ceased their clamor. Gently moving his hands, the priest led the congregation in a song. Offerings of flowers and sweets on brass plates were made to the deities. Then began a prayer for the life of a scrawny little man, toothless, moneyless, helpless Mohandas Gandhi...
...place as a going concern but fixed in the course Jane Addams had set. They were also shocked by Miss Carr's smoking and cocktailing, by her taking Jane Addams' bedroom as her office. Charlotte Carr often mourned that Hull House was in danger of becoming a shrine...