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...took only five minutes for Scottish Architect Basil Spence, standing in the bombed-out shell of Coventry Cathedral one day in 1950, to conceive a design for the new cathedral. "I knew my task was to design a new building linked to the old which would stand for the triumph of the Resurrection," Sir Basil wrote later. "The ruins were the Old Testament, the new cathedral would be the New. The idea of the design was planted in my mind and never changed." Last week Architect Spence stood again at Coventry, this time to watch the ceremonial consecration...
...Architect Faints. The new cathedral has been raised to forgiveness and the unity of man-amidst continuous discord...
Other members are Diane K. McGuire, a landscape architect; Maria Teresa M. Moevs, a classical archaeologist wife of Robert Moevs, assistant professor of Music; Tillie Olsen, a creative writer who won the 1961 O. Henry Award for the best American short story published in the previous year; and Marianna Pineda, a prize-winning sculptor...
...something like a temple, neatly set within a plaza and punctuated by sloping terraces, sweeping public walks, and an endless play of light and shadow on a façade so deliberately broken up that it ignores floor lines except at the top. "It has a beautiful scheme," said Architect Walter Gropius...
...action turns on the amorous experiences of each member of the family except the brat. Father smashes the jaw of a celebrated shoulder kisser who specializes in middle-aged mothers. His daughter falls in love with a miserable young architect who cannot believe in marriage until the young girl's golden example and courageous fortitude in refusing his more immediate advances win him over to a vision of permanent happiness...