Word: icon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially dismayed by the poor selection of older works; the brochure's claim that the retrospective section contains "treasures of the Tsar's court and is highlighted by a magnificent group of icons" is unwarranted. From the profusion of royal riches in the Moscow Kremlin's Armory Museum (one look and you understand why the Revolution took place) the Soviet exhibition committee selected a bit of pearl-embroidered brocade from the raiment of a Russian Orthodox Patriarch, a pearl-encrusted red velvet boot, and Ivan the Terrible's embroidered saddle. The Armory also has a magnificent collection of bejeweled gold...
...eased. Some Jews, like the outstanding poet, Joseph Brodsky, are being pressured by officials to go to Israel, although they prefer to remain in Russia. Still, there are glimmerings. The controversial film Andrei Rublyov, based on the life of the 15th century monk who founded a new school of icon painting, was recently released after a six-year...
...remarkable thing about Navasky's critical treatment is that Kennedy does not emerge as a shattered icon; the zest and the victories he brought to his department are not merely noted for the record but given equal time. The equation, then, is a sad one. If Kennedy, with all his personal and political assets, could be so entrapped, then pity the ordinary mortals who customarily wrestle with reform in high office. ∙Laurance I. Barrett
...which is the capacity to believe. That is what is destroyed along with the order of the Mass and the vessels of Communion. Then there is the long silence. Everyone in that silence has to look inside himself, and find in himself that spark of God. Not in any icon or symbol or trappings of religion but inside. Only when he finds that can he begin to relate to another person, then to a group, ultimately to society. And this is the miracle I saw take place: the waves of tenderness, these waves of touching and embracing, began to spread...
Fellini Satyr icon. Rome, Before Christ and After Fellini, with indelible images of surrealism and horror. The master was, once again, self-indulgent. But what indulgence! And what a self...