Word: ecclesiasticism
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At the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver last week, a bearded ecclesiastic startled the desk clerk by trying to get change for a napkin-sized, 1914-era $100 bill, given to him, he explained, by his grandmother. The well-heeled visitor was one of 16 Russian church leaders who showed...
The Catholic Hour (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). An ecclesiastic fantasy-the trial of a cloistered nun accused of "deserting the world."
Greater Than Mozart? An ungainly giant of a man ("No land, nor clime, nor age/ Have equaled this harmonious boar," wrote one acquaintance in reference to his overeating), Germany's Handel became a symbol of beefy British solidity. Since his death, he has often been thought of as a...
"Send flowers!" is the curt advice. He sends a great florid basket full of yellow roses and thereupon becomes involved in a train of farcical events involving a Greek who follows a philosophical system called "Selectivist," "really an anti-system [containing the best points of] democratic, monarchic, ecclesiastic, Communist and...
As the festival began, all was sweetness, light and color. The cameras ground away. Vestal Virgins, bishops, boy scouts and cardinals of both sexes thronged together in full ecclesiastic panoply on the great Square of the Universe. There were speeches and playlets and prayers. "Our dear Pope is not here...