Word: seraphim
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...SULLIED SERAPHIM They've ascended to the heavens in popularity, so they had to come down. People can be so arch...
DIED. ARCHBISHOP SERAPHIM, 84, stormy head of the Greek Orthodox Church since 1974 who boldly crusaded against the state in the 1980s, excommunicating seven government officials for trying to expropriate the church's vast land holdings; in Athens...
...Fendi the Christmas trees are as svelte and haughty as the Euro-mannequins. From the windows of the Warner Bros. Studio Store, a behemoth Bugs and three of his Looney Tunes pals gaze fretfully across 57th Street at the Tiffany's display -- cuddly bears in tuxedos, snow gear and seraphim wings...
...same title. A moment before he is abandoned, young Roger asks his father when they might become a family again. "When the Angels win the pennant," the father says. He is talking about the more hopeless of the Los Angeles baseball teams. That night Roger offers up prayers, and seraphim respond. With their help, the Angels start winning. Only Roger can see the small-a angels, and so he is needed to tell the perpetually riled-up manager (Danny Glover) what moves to make when they're present. Thus man and boy are forced to bond. Will the Angels...
...Most of Western tradition identifies him as Lucifer, the Morning Star, the most brilliant of all the denizens of the empyrean. He is Sammael, according to the rabbinical literature of the 4th and 5th centuries A.D., highest of those who flit around the throne of God, created above the seraphim and distinguished from others by the fact that he possessed twice the maximum allotment of wings: 12. To Muslims, he is Iblis, a word perhaps derived from the Greek diabolos, the proudest of all God's creatures. And it was pride that would lead to Satan's rebellion and eventual...