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...Emma Lazarus' inscription for the Statue of Liberty
Gerard found his safest hiding places in the secluded houses of the Roman Catholic gentry. Most of these manors had secret cubicles - "priests' holes" - where priests could hide if the house was searched. Gerard describes the end of one nerve-racking search: "Like Lazarus, who was buried four days, I came forth from what indeed would have been my tomb, if the search had continued a little longer...
Last week, without fanfare or controversy, Epstein was about to place one of his religious works in a church. The work: an ungainly but powerful white stone figure of Lazarus. The church: the 14th century Gothic chapel at New College, Oxford. The deal was closed when New College Warden Alic Halford Smith, in Epstein's studio to sit for a portrait bust, admired the Lazarus, decided to buy it on the spot. No financial details were disclosed, except that a "substantial" check was sent to the artist. Back at Oxford, New College officials were so pleased that they planned...
...president of Federated Department Stores, Fred Lazarus Jr. keeps as sharp an eye on population changes as the census bureau. "The U.S.," he likes to say, "is currently undergoing a highly significant population movement." -Nowhere is the movement greater than in the West and Southwest, where some cities have grown 80% in the last ten years compared to a 15% overall U.S. growth. This week, Fred Lazarus thought it time to cash in on the "highly significant movement." He announced that Federated, the third biggest department-store chain in the U.S., will invest $20 million in a new link...
...vault of the great eastern apse is now dominated by the "monumental" mosaic of the 14th century which shows the "Mother of God and the Child" looking down with compassion upon the worshippers below. The Archangel Gabriel, attributed to the ninth century mosaic painter Lazarus, flanks this scene...