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...promised. When the newspaper Madrid last year suggested that he emulate France's Charles de Gaulle and retire, its presses were silenced by government decree for six months and the paper eventually went out of business. Nonetheless Franco has already prepared for his eventual death, and reserved a tomb in the "Valley of the Fallen," the grandiose memorial mausoleum carved by Republican prisoners of war in and around a granite mountain 30 miles from Madrid to hold Civil War dead...
Venturi revels in the forms of the gambling casinos. For him the front colonnade of Caesar's Palace becomes like St. Peter's in Rome; the blue and, gold mosaic work like the Early Christian tomb of Galia Placidia; the cypresses in the parking lot like the Villa D'Este; and the statue of David near the entrance, although having slight anatomical exaggerations, like the Palazzo Vecchio in Rome. Venturi's sense of imagination even allows him to see the A&P parking lot in terms of the gardens at Versailles. The parking lines give direction in a vast, expansion...
...metaphor for man. Rumi was a follower of the ancient principles of Sufism, a mystical movement that is to Islam roughly what Hasidism is to Judaism. He believed that the soul and God are one and the same. The world, he taught the faithful, is but a tomb, temporarily separating the soul from its divine milieu. In order to release the imprisoned spirit, he taught the Sufi dervishes (Persian for beggars) to dance themselves into an ecstatic trance; all their movements were made in rhythm with the music of reed flutes, drums and tambourines...
...Brooklyn Academy of Music. Nine dervishes, solemn in long black capes and tall cylindrical hats, entered the hall led by a sheik. Beckoned by the chant of a blind singer and the melancholy solo of a reed flute, they threw off their voluminous black cloaks, symbols of the tomb that they believe encases the soul. Slowly and gracefully they began to revolve, their long white skirts billowing into circles. Gradually they extended their arms, one palm turned heavenward to receive divine grace, the other toward earth, symbolically dispensing the grace...
Arlington Engineer Bobbie R. Beller has not given up the Unknown Soldier project. Recently, Seller said: "We hope there won't be one, but . . . it's pos sible that one will be found in a final sweep of the battlefield." Seller added: "If not, the tomb will not be used." Perhaps, given the special agony and futility of the Viet Nam War, some sort of monument should be erected to the men who died there - known...