Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Selassie's red-carpet arrival at Washington's Union Station and an autographed photograph of himself in a silver frame. The Emperor presented the President with an Ethiopian Bible copied by hand on parchment bound in silver and overlaid with a gold crucifix, a 200-year-old Coptic church book, a silver fruit bowl inlaid with gold, a silver miniature of the Lion of Judah statue in Addis Ababa, and an autographed photo of himself in a silver frame...
...discussion afterward, clerics from the East were loudest in criticizing Vis ser 't Hooft's suggestion that the council could be discussed in terms that pertained only to the churches. Bishop Samuel of Egypt's Coptic Church warned that "the mere mention of this subject makes the work of the Orthodox churches difficult." Brown-bearded Metropolitan Nikodim, head of the delegation from the Patriarchate of Moscow, argued that it had not occurred to Orthodox bishops that the council "re gards itself as having ecclesiological significance." The Rev. Paul Verghese of the Syrian Orthodox Church, who is director...
...Paper-Doll Stare. Offering a rare opportunity to see this uncommon art, the Villa Hugel-formerly the mam Krupp estate in Essen, Germany-has assembled an exhaustive exhibition of Coptic art from private collectors and museums: some 625 works ranging from the Hellenic antecedents, of 3rd century Alexandria, to 20th century examples from Nubia and Ethiopia...
...paint and carve figures in lifelike proportion was forgotten, and faces began to take on fixed expressions of wonder, glee and terror. But "primitive" art is often closer to nature than the well-drawn, finely carved academy pieces of "high culture," and despite their lack of textbook accuracy, the Coptic artists were expressing their real concern; they were painting, carving and weaving the material of their daily lives against the Christian vision...
...devout: ivory angels carved on a comb, a double lamp in a twin-tailed bronze dove, a polka-dotted leather sandal, a rabbit nibbling round fruit on a woven wool square. Textiles-wall hangings for tombs, shirts and coats for the dead-form perhaps the highest level of Coptic art, and the hot, dry desert climate has preserved some of the best examples: representations of everyday occurrences, proud portrayals of heroic scenes, and obedient evocations of saints and holy acts...