Word: altars
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...console-supported bust ornamenting one wall. To the rear stands a gateway and wall. In the center is a rectangular cistern, which, with the dropping from the grid of a canopy or crucifix, can be covered in a trice to become Juliet's bed or Friar Laurence's altar. A few chairs and round tables turn the building into a sidewalk cafe, with an organ-grinder on hand to increase authenticity...
...stands fragrantly like a bride at the altar, awaiting the embrace of fresh butter and an osculation of jam. It is a loaf of bread. Not the cellophaned Kleenex sold at the supermarket but a homemade loaf, crusty, crumbly and a succor for the eater...
...long hall is given over as a showplace for a Spanish dancer, painted by Sargent. The portrait Sargent did of her sits in the Gothic room on the third floor. Stained glass windows flank her, and a carved chest topped by a huge Bible lies before her like an altar. And, with an amazing amount of stupidity, she placed the only Vermeer in New England perpendicular to a window. The light shines on it at the only angle that could make it completely unreadable...
...woman hurriedly carried her box up to the padre, who was now standing in front of the altar platform. As she held the pathetic scene out to him, the priest extended his hands, mumbled a blessing in Spanish, and then flicked on the box a drop of holy water from a tin cup in his hand. The woman, her face drawn and her hair white, smiled almost imperceptibly and, hugging the box close, moved to the door...
...himself discharged from the army as a certified imbecile, wasn't meant to be a conventional great man. But Hasek didn't think much of conventional great times either. He thought World War I was a pretty fair sample--an enormous sacrifice of common people's lives on the altar of such gods as emperors' glory and capitalists' profits...