Word: shrines
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...scalp, Hillary had to do some sharp bargaining with local witch doctors, who feared that disaster might strike if the scalp were taken from their domain. In the end, he got the trinket on a month's loan by promising a donation to a village shrine, guaranteeing an education for a local lad and agreeing that a village elder could accompany the scalp to Chicago, where it will be examined by scientists...
...help dedicate the great new church in the town of Chartres. Built on a hill above a windy plain, pointing the tiny town beneath it to heaven with its spires, the new church was the seventh to rise upon the sacred spot-sacred to the Druids for its shrine to the mysterious "Virgin Who Shall Bear a Son," sacred later to the Christians as a place of prayer built by Saints Potentian and Albin. Before King Louis on that dedication day in 1260, a great cross was drawn on the cathedral floor with ashes, and the people of Chartres...
...Angeles the campaign story was the same: 7,000 full-throated Californians filled the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium while another 2,000 gathered outside. Jack Kennedy was visibly weary, with deep circles under his eyes and an ominous hoarseness creeping into his voice, but he cracked out a cogent speech that was largely off the cuff...
Stave & Stupa. Johnson's recent work (see color) shows how far he has gone in breaking new ground while finding imaginative uses for old forms. The haystack-shaped shrine, set in a Grecian court in New Harmony, Ind., was built as a memorial to the Harmonists, a German Separatist sect that assured its own extinction by faithfully practicing celibacy. But to Johnson it suggests the stave churches of Norway and the stupa forms of India. Without its name, the Nuclear Reactor Building in Israel could be a medieval cloister, topped by a huge, 20-sided tower that seems...
...activities had neatly paralleled the fictional behavior of Emma Atkins, wife of the hero of The Ugly American, who taught the natives of the imaginary Asian village of Chang 'Dong to manufacture long-handled brooms using local reeds, and for her good deed was honored with a village shrine. But Harriet Bunker's housewifely crusade received real support from high quarters...