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...beset by traffic jams, insufficient parking, illegal building and lack of maintenance. Yet Kollek's new planning approach is aesthetically successful, largely because it recognizes and emphasizes Jerusalem's two most striking aspects: its uniform golden color, which assures the blending of old and new, and the solemn majesty of the Old City wall, which symbolizes the pre-eminence of the Jerusalem where Jews built their first Temple, Christians mark the Resurrection, and Muslims commemorate Muhammad's ascension to heaven...
...funeral rites had unfolded with solemn precision, a fitting tribute to a leader who had stressed discipline and order. As the strains of Chopin's Funeral March sounded over and over again in mournful monotony, the procession set off from the House of Trade Unions toward Red Square along 600 yards of streets that had been brushed clean of ice and snow. A burial plot had been marked off for Andropov in the special cemetery along the Kremlin wall reserved for prominent Communist leaders. Appropriately, Andropov was buried alongside Felix Dzerzhinsky, the man who in 1917 had founded the security...
GRIGORY KOZINTSEV'S 1971 screen version of King Lear is living, breathing evidence of the schoolroom adage that Shakespeare's plays were meant to be seen and not read. With the familiar sounds of Cordelia's solemn "nothing, my lord," and Lear's famous tirade "Blow, winds, blow," translated into Russian, much of the play's impact depends on the actors' ability to reinforce their foreign words with physical gestures, tones of voice, facial expressions and other universally understood signs. And it is greatly to director Kotzintsev's credit that the play's primordial, elemental power is strengthened--not diluted...
...shows, was cautioned by Walter Mondale not to wag his finger at him, while the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who knows a thing about crowd playing too, advised the bullying Donahue to slow down his act. This was more of a knockabout debate than the League of Women Voters' solemn civic lessons. Never mind that it was more demeaning, it was better television, and the candidates do seek attention...
...formal practice of confession goes back thousands of years in Judeo-Christian tradition. Jewish Scripture and liturgy include ancient prayers of confession of sins, and the most solemn period in Judaism's ceremonial calendar is Yom Kippur, the annual Day of Atonement. In Catholic Christianity the sacrament reached its classic form by the 11th century; five centuries later the custom developed of holding confession in a booth, with penitent and priest speaking to each other through an opening in a partition. So strict is the privacy that a Catholic priest is forbidden even to reveal knowledge about crimes acquired...