Word: transept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cardinals, in scarlet chasubles and gleaming white miters, flowed out of the transept in two slow-moving files, a four-year-old girl in the crowd was heard to ask, "Which one is the Pope?" Replied her father: "One of them is?but they haven't decided which...
Through the organ is unsuccessful usually, the placement was well-suited to the church's architecture. By locating the unit within the small left transept facing the rear sound is easily projected to the back of the nave, encircling the entire congregation. The registrations are those of a baroque organ with many mixtures available over a presumably powerful fundamental. The reed stops tone is too often a nasal shriek. This was not helped by some faulty voicing of the individual pipes. But the biggest disappointment is the pedal division. Even the thirty-two-foot Untersatz the loudest stopped-pipe normally...
...Harold Wilson, and former West German Chancellors Ludwig Erhard and Kurt-Georg Kiesinger. Seated among the 6,000 mourners in Notre Dame was Senator Edward Kennedy, who remembered De Gaulle's immediate decision to attend the presidential funeral of his brother John in 1963. In the north transept, easily recognizable despite dark glasses and a dark kerchief, was Marlene Dietrich. Notable absentees: any high-level members of the Nigerian government, which is still bitter over De Gaulle's support of the breakaway state of Biafra; and Canadian Prime Minster Pierre Elliott Trudeau. It was impossible to know whether...