Word: spire
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grantham, a market town of 28,000 in Lincolnshire, has three claims to fame: the 281-ft. spire of St. Wulfram's Church is the third highest in England, Sir Isaac Newton went to school there, and Margaret Hilda Thatcher (nee Roberts) was born and raised in an apartment over her family's grocery store at the corner of North Parade and Broad streets...
...slow train back from Bath stops at Salisbury (pronounced Sawlsbry), whose 13th century gothic cathedral boasts the tallest spire in Britain (404 ft.); it tilts 291/2 in. to the southwest. The cathedral houses the best-preserved of only four original copies of the Magna Carta, and the country's oldest working clock, which first tolled time around...
...leisurely three or four days, with scarcely a neon sign in sight. (A Leyland Mini rents for about $100 a week, unlimited mileage, and sips petrol as if it were rare brandy.) Coventry has risen nobly from the ashes of its 1940 bombing. Next to the surviving western spire of the late medieval cathedral stands the great modern cathedral with vertical thrusts of rose-colored stone and Graham Sutherland's striking altar tapestry...
...plausibly be capsuled in a litany of slogans: No taxation without representation. Give me liberty or give me death. Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes. Let the people rule. Horace Greeley's popularization of "Go West, young man" not only helped in spire California-bound migration but even today conjures up appealing images. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" brings, back the vanished world of Theodore Roosevelt's America. Modern America? The war to end war. A chicken in every pot. We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Remember Pearl...
...recruiting famous architects to design eleven stunning new schools, including an octagonal brick, glass and wood edifice by Chicago's Harry Weese. As the architectural contagion spread through Columbus, Saarinen fils wrought a hexagonal house of worship for the North Christian Church, which he topped with a soaring spire that is affectionately called "the oil can." In a friendly ecclesiastical rivalry, the First Baptist Church then got Weese to concoct a striking, almost medieval-looking church, with a steeply pitched slate roof, on the windy plain at the edge of the city...