Word: icon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literally a holy horror of the French; they would not even eat from a plate a Frenchman had touched. When they were brought to battle, they presented "inert masses" to the French artillery until the gunners themselves stopped, aghast at their slaughter. It had become a war of icon and tricolor. Ségur records his disillusion: "It was no longer a war of kings we were fighting, but a class war, a party war, a religious war, a national war-all sorts of wars rolled into...
...lion in an 8th century B.C. bas-relief, an Egyptian sculpture of the god Horus with lion-hunting gear, Heracles struggling barehanded with the Nemean Lion, as shown on a 5th century B.C. Greek vase, the herdsman subduing the ox in the Zen Buddhist Ox-Herding Pictures, a Russian icon showing St. George and the dragon. Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years ago; one of the most recent is the symbolic bull in Picasso's heroless Guernica. Tied together with texts culled from sources that range...
Then the couple displayed pictures of their pet pugs and extolled the good-luck value of an old Russian icon. Said the Duchess: "I'm terribly superstitious, having been brought up in the South-hats on beds, things hung on doorknobs, number 13 and breaking mirrors...
Reluctantly, Field Marshal Harding ordered a search for hidden weapons in more than a score of Greek Orthodox monasteries and nunneries. An army spokesman refused to "say at this time whether the nuns were frisked," but a monk who was carrying an icon-engraved box containing two revolvers was arrested...
White, black and brown faces beamed at each other over clerical collars. Open-shirted youth leaders from Europe, ascetic-faced priests, smiling Oriental ladies gathered in knots on street corners. Incongruous beside the traffic lights and parked convertibles moved icon-like faces, brown and bearded, with heavy gold chains and swirling robes. Clutching blue Official Handbooks printed in French, German and English, they hurried from hall to meeting room to auditorium to teas, shuttled in 20 buses along the long straggle of Northwestern's campus to the plenary sessions at McGaw Hall...