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...House of Lords to open the new Parliament last week in an ordinary black limousine. The absence of spectacle was something of an accident; there simply had not been enough time to prepare the customary pageantry for the Queen, who had interrupted an official visit to Australia to anoint the election winner. Nonetheless, the austere mood reflected the difficult times in which Britain finds itself...
...Still another aim, most observers suspect, is the determination of the President-who many Frenchmen believe will resign before the 1976 elections because of his ill health-to keep firm control of the government. By re-appointing Messmer, Pompidou made it clear that he is not yet ready to anoint a possible successor...
does not presume to anoint itself as a censor behind which the American Government may do what it pleases without disclosure and public discussion." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker pointed out that the original Justice Department inquiry was hardly vigorous. Therefore, both Justice and the Senate "need to know that an independent press is holding their feet to the fire." The Milwaukee Journal, the Chicago Sun-Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch all argued along a similar vein: that bringing out the full truth must take priority over assuring successful criminal prosecutions...
Some of the new regulations seem simple conveniences. The holy oil need not be olive oil as heretofore required; any vegetable oil will do. No longer will the priest anoint all of the "five senses" (eyes, nostrils, mouth, ears, hands and feet). Instead he will anoint only the hands and forehead...
...commissioning more elaborately naturalistic works. There is still a trace of Gothic rigor in the sweeping cloak of its lindenwood Mary Magdalene, but in all other respects she is almost a portrait, down to the look of pleased anticipation on her broad face as she uncaps the flask to anoint Christ's feet...