Word: adornment
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...apparently needing more oversight, on the queer principle that smaller armies need more generals) . . . contributes precisely nothing to a remedy . . . Some bishops are still happily learned men, though their learning is seldom relevant to present pressing need . . . Far too many of them bring no intellectual gifts or accomplishments to adorn their episcopal office...
...There is one respect," Crockford's conceded, "in which none could suggest that bishops nowadays fail to adorn their office. We refer to robes and external decorations . . . Long-traditional practice and restraint have been largely displaced by sartorial idiosyncrasy. Of copes and mitres we speak no evil, but we think parading in a scarlet robe . . . is ridiculous, if not worse...
...hair design, is in the ascendant these days? The answer is that no one really knows. It is whispered in some circles that hair is going to be worn more daringly this season but as yet no one knows how daringly. Perhaps the most fearless hairdresser swill venture to adorn a few choice heads with some of the unspeakably modern hairdos which are sifting out of the Balkans these days. But beyond this it is impossible to tell...
...composers whose names adorn the proscenium arch of the Metropolitan Opera, Christoph Willibald Gluck is the oldest (1714-87), the least honored, the least sung.* Four of his 42 operas have been performed at the Met, but only at very rare intervals. Last week Gluck's Alcestis got a performance that restored some of the proper shine to his name...
Last Thursday, the modestly clad figures in marble that adorn Symphony Hall's walls looked down upon a flood of giggling women. From eleven-year-old girl scouts to Radcliffe and Simmons College bobby-soxers, the girls had turned out in strength to see conductor-soloist Leonard Bernstein lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a rehearsal...