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...theology of the council's liturgical constitution, which emphasizes that the central place of the Eucharist is only in the communal meal that is the Mass. Even more questionable to some theologians is the encyclical's assumption that the language in which a church dogma is expressed is as timeless and true as the dogma itself ? an argument that is refuted by the history of Catholic doctrinal development...
...roseate, smoky day: the fur trader puffing his pipe, his half-breed son derisively peering at the artist, and the huddled bear cub chained to the bow of the dugout. The river is the Missouri; the year is 1845, and the painter, who by his art has enshrined a timeless moment by on the frontier, is George Caleb Bingham (see opposite page). It is also American landscape drawing at its best accurate, knowledgeable, architectural and withal a key link in the chain of shared experience that finally defined America as a nation...
...there where the paint had flaked. As Fairbanks and his kin passed on, the collection grew through bequests, now numbers 87 paintings and ten sculptures, including works by Jasper Cropsey, William and James Hart and Thomas Moran. Today the Athenaeum remains unchanged. The gaslight chandeliers have been electrified, the timeless hush is occasionally broken by construction next door. But the deep-set windows admit the weak northern light just as they did nearly a century ago; the oak and walnut floors gleam from years of polishing. And the statuary from Italy, along with the period paintings from the U.S., still...
...mile "Turkish Riviera" is every adventurer's midsummer daydream come true. It offers every variety of beach, from powdered sand to pebble to worn rocks. Here and there, cool mountain streams spill over steep cliffs into small, semitropical coves, and everywhere unexploited ruins lend an air of timeless tranquillity. Marble columns stand cool and sublime amongst pine trees, crusaders' castles tower above rocky promontories, and old fortresses jut out into the ocean. Most wonderful of all, the coast is virtually devoid of tourists. The reason is simple enough. Most of the Turkish Riviera has barely been touched...
...left with any time for literature, it tends to read in winter what used to be regarded as summer fare. The holiday reading list increasingly represents an escape not from serious literature but toward it; vacations loom as the annual oasis where people can soak up the topical or timeless, talked-about or dreamed-about books...