Word: iconic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many ways a more difficult job than merely writing a play, a task Miss Gordon has twice before proved she could do. It requires both daring and discretion; the knowledge of one's boundaries is essential for its success. But most of all, the playwright needs an icon with more general appeal than Miss Gordon. She is a fine actress, very feminine and tender. She has a funny little was of running up the musical scale when she speaks, letting her voice crack, gently, half the way up. But as the great and brilliant actress...
When they died, common Muscovites were simply wrapped in a pall and carried yo the burial ground, behind an icon; in their hands was placed a piece of paper with a prayer for the repose of their souls. This prompted an early Moscow correspondent, who had discovered that there was less freedom of movement in Moscow than anywhere in Europe, to report: "The Russ, when he dies, hath his passport to St. Nicolas buried with...
Against a tremendous improvised iconostasis (a screen built to hold icons when cathedral walls were full), visitors saw the tall spare figures of saints and Virgins, mournful of mien, with inclining haloed heads and slim-fingered hands. These paintings represented the oldest and most continuous art tradition of Europe-a tradition whose source was Byzantium ("icon" is from the Greek eikon, "image"). Icon painters of the 11th to 17th Centuries, "humble and mild and pious" (as a 16th Century Church Council enjoined them to be), painted as reverently as they prayed, "remembering the work of the earlier painters, following...
...fragrance of incense, the throb of Russian choir music, a dazzle of peacock blues, flaming reds and gold filled the Baltimore Museum. It was also filled with socialite art tasters and leather-jacketed shipyard workers who had come to see "The Golden Age of the Russian Icon"-sacred pictures from the ancient towns of Holy Russia (Kiev, Novgorod, Moscow) in the religious setting that alone gives them meaning...
...battered Acropolis whence he surveyed the glinting blue Aegean. Before his big Short Sunderland flying boat took off for British Egyptian headquarters, he received from Athens' Military Governor Kostas Kotzias a gift of two handsome pistols from the 1821-29 Greek War of Independence, a lustrous Byzantine icon, an album of photographs of Greece, and rich Dodecanese Island embroideries for Mrs. Eden. It had been such a reception as in peace times might have been accorded a distinguished English poet, and went down very well with a scholar who had taken honors in Oriental languages at Oxford 18 years...