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Tertullian condemned the theater as the "shrine of Venus," and it took the church a millennium to change its judgment . . . There have been those whose socks and buskins were as happily quiet under pews as active on the boards. You, sir, are such...
Surprised but not abashed by all the fuss, Kennedy took his major critics to lunch. He tactfully refrained from telling his home state that Old Ironsides belongs to the whole U.S., even though she has been a historic shrine in Boston Harbor since 1909. Her renovation in the late '20s was aided by the pennies of schoolchildren across the nation, and the U.S. Navy has since manned and maintained her at an annual cost of about $35,000. But he did wield a secret weapon: his older brother's personal interest in moving the 165-year-old vessel...
There is a kind of privacy even in the mass. "You find it driving to work, alongside all those other people, but alone with your thoughts," says California's Sociologist Edward McDonagh. "The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond...
...Meeting Center-looking like a mammoth radar dish from below and half a grapefruit from above-which will contain a 750-seat auditorium, a 300-seat conference room, plus several smaller conference rooms and exhibit space for state government units. At the south end will be a shrine: the Arch of Freedom, in which the original of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation will be on display. In the same area will be a museum, a library, the state archives building, and an outdoor amphitheater. Automobiles will be banished to the nether regions. Vehicles will unload on two levels below...
...Little Rome." C.U. began as a graduate school for priests, and although it let in undergraduates in 1904 and women in 1920, it is still something of a graduate-level seminary. Dominated by the vast National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the campus is ringed by 87 houses of study for various orders, giving rise to the nickname "Little Rome." One-third of the 5,300 students are nuns, priests and other religious. The effect is unusual-pretty coeds in skirts and sweaters mixing with bearded Capuchin brothers in robes and sandals and studious Sisters of Chari ty in swooping...