Word: transept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shaw cabled: "Delighted to hear St Joan being done at Harvard stop have always wanted to see Joan played by male." The choice was excellent; and the production, in Sanders Theatre, was magnificent. Typical of Kilty's directive imagination was the decision to perform the coronation scene in the transept of Memorial Hall. The audience moved out of Sanders and became the congregation; the scene was played on a specially constructed altar at the north end, while fire-department searchlights outdoors focussed on the stained-glass windows over-head. The consensus was reflected in the comment of one critic, "From...
...interconnecting courts (including a 240-car underground garage) to give partial views of the cathedral; 5) moving London's Temple Bar, symbol of the City's independence, where, ceremonially, even the monarch must pause for permission to pass, to a site between St. Paul's north transept and the forecourt...
...pair of murals painted in the museum transept during this period aroused a new furor when their artist, Jacob Rubenstein, was accused of developing his commissioned themes into anti-Nazi propaganda. One of the pictures portrays a figure in jack-boots and a Sam Brown belt whipping a group of slaves, while the other depicts an attack by a party of modernly equipped warriors upon an enemy using shields and spears. The museum, however, still officially denies any direct analogy to the third Reich...
After Patricia Brown, 14, of Alabama, turned miscible into missible, William Kelley, 11, of Missouri, was confronted with uncinated. "U -n-" said young Kelley manfully, "s ..." Bill Cashore fell into no such trap: uncinated came out with a "c," and transept, the clincher, with an "s." Last week, with a $500 scholarship in his pocket and a weekend scheduled in Manhattan, Champion Cashore admitted that he had "guessed a little" during the ordeal. But that did not prevent him from offering a word of advice to contestants of the future. "Study hard after school," said Bill. "And think before...
...month, workmen from the Department of Buildings and Grounds have been scraping and washing the walls and ceiling of the transept, which divides Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre, to prepare the surfaces for painting. The ceiling, now a dull mahogany from age, will be restored to its original reddish-gold wood stain, while walls will be painted buff brown with colored striping...