Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Overriding church, chapter and parish, a saintly dean drives his architect to build a huge, prayer-envisioned stone spire on the shaky foundations of his cathedral, and then realizes on his deathbed that his spiritual inspiration was probably only worldly ambition. A metaphysical summation of his four previous novels (Lord of the Flies, Free Fall, etc.), William Golding's medieval fable is a provocative and often brilliant statement of the helpless and iniquitous nature...
Bereaved parents can find real consolation as to the ultimate salvation of a lost child in Holy Scripture. The method can be safely and properly left to the Lord...
Eternal Luster. In a devout send-off for the idol of Avalokiteshvara, Lord of Compassion (see opposite page), Nepalese monks sprinkled it with holy vermilion powder and packed it in flowers before sending it off to New York. The cast bronze has swelling contours that are not obscured by excessive ornamentation, with as much easy stylization and graceful gesture as the sculpted saints of the contemporary Gothic in Europe. Avalokiteshvara has one advantage to delight a sculptor: he comes in 108 different incarnations. Nepalese sculptors were equally adept at hammering out fully rounded copper-gilt figures from inside. Fond...
...most distinguished name in art dealing. Founded in 1877 by an English antique dealer, the commercial gallery was carried to the pinnacle of poshery by his son, Baron Duveen of Millbank, who became so legendary a dealer that 24 years after his death in 1939, a hit Broadway play, Lord Pengo, made fiction of his exploits. He bought and sold Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer three times, always handled, as his motto affirmed, "nothing but recognized masterpieces." His clients were equally well recognized -Mellon, Morgan, Frick, Rockefeller, Kress, Altman, Bache-and Duveen steered their taste...
...question of Franco's succession remains cloudy if much discussed. At a rally several weeks ago, the Generalissimo announced without fanfare that he would continue to rule "as long as the Lord gives me strength. Many of the powers which are now mine are, because of their very nature, non-transferable." But twenty-five years after his victory the Caudillo is a weathered seventy-one. A hunting accident suffered several years ago brought the succession question to the front of everybody's mind. Since a 1947 plebescite--the only one during his reign--Franco has had the right to name...