Word: ikon
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...Sunday photographer, and that telephoto shot of Versailles developed into a study in black. The industry's answer: sophisticated but carefree cameras that require little more than clicking the shutter. At the International Photographic Exposition in New York last week, every company from Agfa-Gevaert to Zeis-Ikon was showing off automated midgets...
From the Aegean island of Tenos, Greece's Lourdes, a sacred, jewel-encrusted ikon of the Virgin Mary, which is believed to work miracles, was sped by naval destroyer and limousine to the King's sickroom. Briefly Paul rallied...
...Charging to her defense, gallant young Author John Updike first of all pointed out in a letter to the editors that "she is a terrific-looking woman." Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn." Sniffed Kauffmann, in what tellectuals" undoubtedly is like not the Updike, "a last film word: to theater "in is a kind of steam bath or opium den to which one goes for a faintly wicked and figuratively supine little debauch . . . Pre sumably Miss...
...same time, Rouault's turbulent mysticism never looked better. Three Clowns, almost an ikon in spiritual dignity as well as in symbolic analogy, imparts to its rich, warm tones an austerity as breathtaking as its intense emotion. And Autumn, more soul than landscape, reveals perhaps even more the spirit of an old master than a modern...
Last year, the Oberkochen plant, plus the new one at Stuttgart, turned out $24 million worth of lenses, surveying instruments, microscopes and other goods, half of which were sold abroad; the Zeiss Ikon (camera) division at Stuttgart, turning out everything from a $15 box camera to the $300 Contax, was able to declare an 8% dividend...