From the beginning, there was noisy but not unexpected opposition to the new projects: the age of big cathedrals is over, one heard; they are far too expensive; the money would be better spent on new schools, on the poor, and on affordable housing for the immigrants who have flooded the state. Medieval memories - massive pillars, long naves, the darkness - none of this seemed right for California, where competing Evangelicals have built modern mega-churches and a crystal cathedral, and where Mormon temples glisten in the sunshine. According to the engineers, this will "seismically isolate" the cathedral in the event of an earthquake, allowing the building to rock, but not fall.
The Big Read is the single largest federal literature project since the Works Progress Administration, Franklin Roosevelt's massive New Deal stimulus package. It was a time when [John Steinbeck]'s literary star was on the rise, fueled by the popularity of works like The Grapes of Wrath, while [Robinson Jeffers] was falling out of favor for his views on "evil works of his fellow man." In fact, Jeffers nearly disappeared from the American canon in the '30s and '40s, partly because of his opposition to the coming World War II (he had also opposed World War I). Steinbeck too was famously linked to politically risky sentiments, but the Pulitzer Prize-winning author didn't recede from the national consciousness the same way Jeffers did. We have taken an ungodly toll on our landscape. Jeffers ...
As a boy, Sam Trophia was fascinated with the natural world. His room in the family's Rome, New York, home contained cages and containers occupied by critters that crawled, hopped and flapped. Sam was especially interested in the world of butterflies known as lepidopterology. To encourage this interest, Sam's parents put him in contact with Prof. F.A. Urquhart, a leading lepidopertorist at Scarbourough College, University of Toronto. Sam Trophia's love affair with the Monarch butterfly had come full circle. He was now standing at one of the sites that his youthful tagging efforts 30 years earlier had helped to locate. According to Tom Emmel and other lepidopterists, the full journey from Mexico to North America and back requires five generations of Monarchs who are genetically impri...
The film goes on to deal with such matters as the 1906 Antiquities Act, which allowed Theodore Roosevelt to place land under federal protection with the stroke of a pen; the fierce battles between conservationists and entrepreneurs over areas like the Smoky Mountains; the post- World War II boom in visitors that menaced park resources; and the absorption of historically significant sites (such as Little Rock Central High School) into the park system. The idea that nature can furnish a vision of transcendence, while simultaneously revealing the interconnectedness of the cosmos, turns up again and again in the documentary, in the solemn voiceovers quoting historical figures, and in the contemporary interviews with park rangers, scholars, and writers (including Nevada Barr, a former park ...
I am not an authority on cathedrals. In fact, pretty much everything I know I learned from David Macaulay's pen-and-ink picture book "Cathedral. But I am an authority on how cathedrals make me feel.
IN the grand scheme of things, the recent resignation of Harvard's president, Lawrence Summers, was a small episode. But its implications are large and reach beyond Harvard - and well beyond the academic world. David Riesman said that we are living in the cathedrals of learning, without the faith that built those cathedrals. We are also living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it.
NEW YORK - Ten years on, Americans come together Sunday where the World Trade Center soared, where the Pentagon stands as a fortress once breached, where United Airlines Flight 93 knifed into the earth. They will gather to pray in cathedrals in our greatest cities and to lay roses before fire stations in our smallest towns, to remember in countless ways the anniversary of the most devastating terrorist attacks since the nation's founding, and in the process mark the milestone as history itself.
Q: When we renovated our house in 2003, we removed the roof from the chimney west, creating a shed dormer over our stairway and gable dormers out front, back (shown in the first photo) and to the west. I cross-bordered the rafters and laid rafter vent with cross pieces at each bore hole, hoping the soffit vents would allow cold air to draw through them and to the ridge vent. All insulation is 12 inches and is covered from the inside with 5 mil poly. The gable in the first photo has a flat ceiling (it is our master bath) with an exhaust fan in it. The front gable and first eight feet of the ridge for the back gable -- as well as the gable end -- are full cathedrals. We have recessed lighting (rated for insulation) in the shed dormer and in the ceilings of the tiled shower and bedroom.
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The front page of the Wall Street Journal is not the usual purveyor of nostalgia, but a bit of the past flashed before me the other morning when I read that Terry Lundgren, the CEO of Federated Department Stores, wants to revive the "cathedral of commerce" that once anchored Main Street. Visions of shirts and shoes and crystal, of sparkling glass counters and uniformed elevator attendants, danced like sugar plums through my imagination. Federated recently acquired May Department Stores, at $17 billion the largest acquisition in department store history. With the joining of Macy's and Bloomingdale's, Mr. Lundgren thinks the department store won't join the pushcart and the street bazaar in the Valhalla of merchandising after all.
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