Word: angelically
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...Delaunay made them so with Homage to Blériot, 1913-14. It is a marvelously aerated image of flight. The painted discs that had become his signature function variously as wheels, radial engines, sunbursts and air force roundels; a red propeller flaps, and a biplane hangs like an angel in a mandorla of color. No athlete himself, Delaunay was fascinated by organized spectator sport-itself a "modern" phenomenon. Its sense of disciplined energy appealed to him, and in the various versions of The Cardiff Team, he set forth a compendium of favorite images: the box-kite biplane...
...procession of patriotic floats. A Model T Ford chugs in from the wings. Behind the wheel sits a stout woman wearing a stern expression and a name sash that reads GERTRUDE S. Her passenger, sprightly in gray morning stripes, is Virgil T. Neither seems especially surprised when an angel on roller skates whizzes past...
...toward? Some ultimate darkness, some ultimate evil in the world, or perhaps in himself. A death-beyond-death-an annihilation not only of the body by war but of the personality by peace. "The truth of this world is to die," says Bardamu. But he wrestles with his black angel so fiercely that the result is art -showing that violent, capering, irresistible energy that the 20th century accepts as an enormous attachment to life...
...colonial America. Virginian William Byrd wrote, "It was a Place free from those three great Scourges of Mankind -Priests, Lawyers, and Physicians." Divine aid was considered more important than that of the physician. Only through God's grace could one escape disease or survive its attack. In The Angel of Bethesda, the first general treatise on medicine written in the colonies, Cotton Mather advised in 1724, "Lett us look upon Sin as the Cause of sickness...
...friends in Topsham, Me., a 19-year-old girl had a vision. Jesus allowed her to see the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written. At the very center in a halo of light was the Fourth Commandment, requiring observance of the seventh day. This meant, an angel explained, that Saturday must be kept as the Christian Sabbath...