Word: miter
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When Bernard Francis Law '53 dons the miter as Boston's new archbishop on March 23, he will inherit an archdiocese rich in ethnic diversity and burdened with pressing social problems...
Arriving at the church, the Pope greeted worshipers along the aisles as TV cameras followed his every gesture. There was no applause from the congregation, rather bowing of heads and smiles, the result not of chilliness but of Lutheran formality. Instead of his magisterial miter, the Pope wore a simple white skullcap. Equality was stressed even in such details as the size and placement of each chair...
...well-off family. They don't have just a photographer to record this less-than-historic occasion, an entire documentary film crew has been engaged to shoot it. And the presiding clergyman is not merely the local minister but a bishop no less, and what matter that his miter is sweat-stained or that he is senile...
With the Pope garbed in a red chasuble, slippers and gloves and a gold-and-white miter on his head, some 60,000 mourners filed past his body. Then, with more than 5,000 soldiers and police standing guard against Italy's unpredictable terrorists, a hearse drove the body along the 15-mile route to St. Peter's. For a time the body was sealed in its casket. But when Cardinals arriving in Rome voiced disappointment, it was again put on view?in front of the high altar, where only the Pope or his delegate may say Mass. (The body...
...handyman and carpenter-precariously, since his standards of joinery and finish soon became too high for him to be employable in the quick-profit building trade. His sculptures have always been exquisitely made, the rare-wood inlays done with a skill almost vanished from modern American joinery, every miter and dovetail fitted to perfect tolerances. This pitch of care gives the work an indelible presence. It is quality as metaphor, proclaiming that art, before it says anything else, is a statement of the need to make something really well...