Word: vezelay
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...bear witness, to teach. Sometimes they do it in oddly naive ways: Pierce's carving of one person straining at a gnat while another literally swallows a camel, the beast halfway down his throat, comes out of the same impulses that drove the Romanesque carvers at Vezelay or Autun to their didactic grotesqueries...
...develop Sahara oil. Appointed one of the "Three Wise Men" in 1955 to look into Western Europe's energy needs, he has led the campaign for European development of atomic power. Louis Armand arguing for Euratom, says Paris' L'Express, "is Saint Bernard preaching at Vezelay on Easter Sunday and leading his listeners off on the Crusade." Though he starts, he says, with "three empty notebooks and a pencil," Armand promises 15 million kw. of atomic-produced electric power for "Little Europe" by 1967. (U.S. atomic-power goal...
...GLORY OF ROMANESQUE ART (351 pp.; Vanguard; $15). In the minds of many visitors to France, what lingers longest is the richness of its Romanesque architecture, the combination of religiosity and dedicated workmanship that lives in Chartres, at Mont St.-Michel, in Vezelay. These 271 photographs are rich evidence of the legacy left by the great architects and sculptors of 11th and 12th century France, the marriage of mass and grace, of glory to God and man's determination to create for posterity...
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