Word: ikons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Axios! Axios! The meeting between Pope and Patriarch took place at the Orthodox Cathedral of St. George, a ramshackle Byzantine-style church down by Istanbul's lumberyards. After joint prayers, the two exchanged gifts-a gold-embroidered stole for Paul, an ikon for the Patriarch-while the congregation, following the Orthodox tradition, shouted "Axios! Axios!" (worthy, worthy...
...Zeiss Ikon Contarex with 200-mm. I 4 lens and a modified Questar telescopic lens (equal to a 50-in. telescope); a Hasselblad 500-C with Zeiss 70-mm. lens; a Widelux panoramic camera for photographing horizons; and a 16-mm. movie camera specially built by McDonnell Aircraft...
...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...