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...Manhattan's St. Mary the Virgin Church only to discover belatedly that they were not in one of Cardinal Spellman's parishes. The ceremony-conscious Anglo-Catholics seem oddly yoked in brotherhood with low-church "Anglo-Baptists," who frown on stained glass and statuary as Biblically forbidden graven images and celebrate austere Communions on plain wooden tables free of candles or crucifix...
Projecting between the gates of the synagogue into the western parts are two elegant marble platforms, which may have served as lecterns for readers of the Bible, Fragments of inscriptions graven on marble plaques--a few in Hebrew, the great majority in Greek--lay scattered along the walls...
...drew on traditional sources, since from childhood he studied the Bible, Torah, and, secretly, the cabala. "Cosmic riddles were actual in my home. . . . One could as easily have questioned the validity of reason as the existence of God. . . . The worship of reason was as idolatrous as bowing down to graven images...
...Dead Sea Scrolls), and the Billy Rose Art Garden, designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The Art Garden already has Billy's own private collection, which Israel finally accepted as a gift last year after deciding that it would not be a violation of Leviticus 26:1 to have graven images around as long as no one bowed down unto them...
Lipchitz' graven images are among the finest of this century, and Showman Rose was not exaggerating last week when he made his own estimate of their value. "When you think that one bronze reproduction might bring in $15,000, and that here we'll have 300 of the original plaster models, well. I'd hate to think what the value would be in figures, but it's astronomical...