Word: miter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the Passion of Christ and the life of the Virgin, achieving a peak of dramatic intensity hitherto unrealized in North German painting. In The Martyrdom of St. Thomas, the kneeling archbishop half turns toward his attackers. Blood streams down his forehead and splashes onto his white cassock; his miter rolls away across the tile floor. The decorative flatness of Thomas' cope and the star-spangled, scarlet sky are in striking contrast to the bold modeling of his face...
...modern theology. Deciding that he could not adequately do both, the yeasty and iconoclastic prelate last week announced that he will resign his see and become a member of the resident staff of Robert Hutchins' Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara. MIND OVER MITER, headlined the New York Daily News...
...once entertained a delegation of visiting New York police by stalking into a tavern, miter and all, and ordering a round of beer for his guests; another time, after blessing the fishing fleet at Gloucester, he vaulted aboard one ship and asked the captain to sail him home to Boston. At amusement parks he buys candy kisses for nuns and shamelessly employs a rather widely used gag as he tells them that "they're the only kisses you'll ever get." Hardly a day goes by that Boston Catholics can pick up their papers without seeing...
...broken and the pieces buried with John's body. To those in the room, Aloisi Masella spoke the ritual words: "Vere Papa mortuus est [The Pope is truly dead]." He then signed a formal certificate of death, and Vatican clerics dressed the body for its final appearance: golden miter, white alb, crimson and gold gloves, chasuble, buskins and slippers. In John's hands was placed the tiny black crucifix he had held in his final hours. The bells of Rome's 540 churches pealed out a requiem across the city...
...arranged as a hall of justice: in it an office worker, satanic in black robes, buys the illusion that he is a judge and cruelly extracts a confession of a prostitute (Ruby Dee). A second chamber is arranged as a chapel: in it a gas-meter reader, in miter and chasuble, buys the illusion that he is a bishop and lovingly receives a confession of a prostitute. A third chamber is arranged as a stable: in it a milkman, bristling with chest lettuce, buys the illusion that he is a cavalry general and prepares to mount his whorse...