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It was a startling drama of forgiveness and reconciliation. On one level, it was an intensely intimate transaction between two men. But if the Pope spoke in whispers, he also meant to proclaim a message to the world. The only other people in the cell with Agca and John Paul...
After Alexander the Great took Sardis in 334 B.C., Greek architecture and Hellenic culture predominated. Later development took place under Roman rule and in Byzantine times Sardis became an early center of Christianity. The "angel of the church in Sardis" is mentioned in the book of Revelations: recent excavations have...
April 30--Large chunks of masonry begin to fall from Gund Hall; architecture students working late are startled by loud creaks and groans. Investigation reveals that the extra weight of Christo's wrappings has placed an intolerable strain on the already tottering building. B&G workers are called to the...
Among the 1983 buildings that reconnect functional modern architecture with classic and familiar gestures, the best is Philip Johnson and John Burgee's AT&T building in New York City. Many critics who earlier chattered indignantly about the building's Chippendale pediment now realize that in fact it...
An opera of such ambition and scope, coming as it does late in the composer's life, naturally recalls a similar religious epic, Parsifal. Like Wagner's valedictory, Saint François is a spacious work of musical architecture, a cathedral in sound that generates a sense of...