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When Brazil's famed Architect Oscar Niemeyer designed the chapel 16 years ago for Belo Horizonte (pop. 650,000), he was inspired by French Poet Paul Claudel's statement: "A church is God's hangar on earth." But to Belo Horizonte's Roman Catholic archbishop, Niemeyer's hangar looked more like the devil's bomb shelter -a parabolic vault of glass and stucco, with an emaciated Christ glaring from a huge fresco by Painter Candido Portinari. Worse, Architect Niemeyer and Painter Portinari were godless Communists. Despite protests by Belo Horizonte's Mayor Juscelino...
Last week the 16-year controversy was finally ended. The old archbishop had gone into virtual retirement; Mayor Kubitschek was President of Brazil; and Architect Niemeyer was an ex-Communist. After a long talk with Brazil's national-monuments chief, Auxiliary Archbishop Dom João Rezende Costa agreed that the church has "great artistic significance and a spiritual atmosphere." Refurbished by Architect Niemeyer, the old chapel was at last consecrated by Archbishop Rezende Costa before an enthusiastic crowd of citizens. Said the archbishop: "Now we can feel the wonderful art created here in homage to the Creator." Said...
...precisely calculated to appeal to the old master's usual fans. He writes about the short story, the novels of Goethe, a Hindu swami he once met, three French writers who kept personal and controversial journals, and about the life and writings of Dr. Tillotson, a 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury. A doubtful lot, on the face of it, but Maugham has the easy knack of wringing interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits), and he says very little that is original. Yet the effect is that...
There was one other meal that caused no end of consternation. The Archbishop was not invited to the royal banquet following the wedding of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko-apparently because imperial officials had confused him with the Communist-lining "Red Dean" of Canterbury. "It's fearfully embarrassing for Ambassador Sir Oscar Morland," said one Briton. "Morland has been invited, yet Fisher outranks him. In fact, Fisher outranks everyone in England except the royal family...
Lest anyone think he was slowing down at 71, the Archbishop had a direct word for his Anglicans. Said he, on his arrival in Tokyo: "My trip through the East to this point has left me untouched by mental, moral or physical indigestion. To be the Archbishop of Canterbury, you must be tough...