Word: alb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BAROQUE SKETCHES (Columbia). Some imaginative and energetic forays in the boundary land between jazz and the classics by the lyrical Flugelhorn of Art Farmer and a big "baroque orchestra" bright with brasses. The mixed company of composers includes Chopin, Albéniz and Sonny Rollins (Alfie's Theme) along with Bach (Air on the G String and Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring). Pretty wiggy...
...year ago. Pork is 16.5% higher; in many places, pork loin has risen from 590 a lb., to 790, and bacon costs as much as $1 a lb. As shoppers substituted chicken for beef and pork, poultry prices inevitably rose by 7% (current U.S. average price for fryers: 380 alb...
...answer did not satisfy Lord Alexander. As far as he is concerned, Anglican Communion already resembles too closely the Roman Catholic Mass; and the measure to permit the use of the alb (a long-sleeved white tunic), the chasuble (a poncholike garment), the amice (a linen neckcloth) and the maniple (a band of cloth worn on the left arm) would strengthen what the London Times called a "drift toward the Roman Catholic form of service...
...17th century, the Church of England has been divided between High Church Anglo-Catholicism and Low Church Evangelicals. Low churchmen oppose any changes in Anglican canon law, last codified in 1604, and not much altered since, that would permit more "Popish" vestments and ceremonies. But though considered illegal, the alb and the chasuble are worn by priests in a fourth of the Anglican churches in Britain. The intent of the vestments measure is to make legal, though optional, practices that have been widespread since Victorian days...
...chance, a Roman Catholic walked into Sunday worship at the Church of the Divine Wisdom in Mount Vernon, N.Y., he would feel right at home. The priest at the altar would be wearing alb, chasuble, maniple and stole, the familiar Eucharistic vestments of the Western church; the liturgy he celebrated, except for the use of English instead of Latin, would be almost identical with the Roman Mass. But the worshippers at the church are not Roman Catholics, or even High-Church Anglicans; they are members of the little-known Western Rite of the Orthodox Church...