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...stride. And soon he caught up.It wasn’t long before we fell into some sort of rhythm. By the time we’d passed those first few pews, we’d agreed on a kind of swaying tack that shuffled us across the wood. The shuffling became a skimming and that gave me enough of a gliding feel to not slow when I heard, from the Negro section, some Hallelujahs and a Holy Deliverer. I’m sure the cries were cried for The Creator but Ezekiel seemed to think they could...
Daydreaming about Harvard in high school, you may have imagined wood-panel rooms lined with dozens of Gutenberg Bibles and the busts of ancient Greek philosophers—a haven where students would absorb knowledge from the mere scent of the ancient books surrounding them. Uhhhh...maybe not. Maybe you just smoked pot or played the sousaphone. But anyway, you'll grant FlyBy that studying at Harvard is not quite the stuff of dreams (especially in the early morning). That's where the House libraries come in. Many replicate a sense...
Lowell may be smaller than most House libraries, with a mere three modestly sized tables. But it is still one of the most elegant River House libraries on campus. A wood panel engraving of the Lowell shield—the hand seizing the arrows, encapsulating the motto occasionem cognosce (seize the moment)—gazes on studious Lowellians. The selection of literature on the bottom floor celebrates a special focus on obscure English literature that no one reads anymore (a defect present in many other River House libraries, including Winthrop...
...country's economic policies. Today those rooms boast marble bathrooms, fur throws, 16-ft. (5 m) high ceilings and sweeping views of the Bebelplatz and Humboldt University. There's more behind the luxurious surface: bullets and grenade fragments from World War II remain embedded in the suites' original wood paneling. For more information, visit www.hotelderome.com...
...Catholic Church, "there came to be three distinct kinds: first class, second class, and third class, with further scales of value evident but less formally defined within each class. First class relics include any object that may have had contact with Jesus Christ during his life, death or resurrection: wood from the stable where legend says he was born; pieces of the cross or nails used for his crucifixion; the Shroud of Turin, which the faithful believe wrapped his body before it was set in the tomb ... Had John the Baptist worn a watch, for example, it would...