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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the SSJE is comparatively young, it is related to an ancient monastic tradition. Like Benedictine monks of a thousand years ago, members of the Community live in poverty, chastity, and obedience. The Cambridge monastery operates with the proceeds of a large endowment; its style of life is not uncomfortable. The vow of poverty is now interpreted to mean that community members possess no personal goods, except camera equipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Island of Tranquility On Memorial Drive: The Anglican Monastery | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...really care about the records," Brown insists. "If we lost but I broke those records it wouldn't really matter. But I'm really anxious to go out and do it. It sure would be a great feeling to go out in style, as they say," he added...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Brown Closes In On Passing Marks, May Pass Kubacki | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

...arranging last week's dollar rescue, the Administration also showed a sense of style and timing in economic policy that it had never before displayed. By keeping their mouths shut, officials managed to spring the announcement just when it would do nearly maximum damage to antidollar speculators. And the President demonstrated commendable willingness to swallow bitter medicine that he had long put off taking. But that ought to be only the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rescue the Dollar | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...they embrace reproductions of such varied items as Picasso's Houses on the Hill ($650), a weather vane sculpture of a 19th century race horse ($975), an old Chinese temple jar ($1,000) and an 18th century Japanese wood carving of a sleeping cat ($125). Besides beauty and style, what these and 112 other art objects being offered in a slickly handsome new catalogue have in common is that all are copies of works in the huge private collection of one of the nation's newest mail-order salesmen: Nelson Rockefeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalizing on a Collection | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Conceived in the Edwardian era of optimism, the cathedral is nothing if not ambitious. It was the first built in England's northern provinces since the Reformation, and may well be the last one in the majestic Gothic style to be erected anywhere. It is is the largest church in a country already rich in religious edifices, and the fifth largest in the world.* Its vaulting (175 ft. high under the tower) is higher than any other, its length (619 ft.) second only to St. Peter's in Rome. Work on the cathedral continued through two world wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: A Masterpiece for Merseyside | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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