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...Covered Throne. For the duration of the conclave the cardinals-ranged on their thrones along the walls of the Sistine Chapel-in effect share the powers of the papacy. But from the moment the new Pope accepts his election, they revert to their usual status. To signify this fact, the cardinals tug heavy silken cords to drop the baldachin that hangs over each chair, leaving only the new Pope's throne covered. As the cardinals line up to kiss the Pope's slipper, knee and cheek, he faces for the first time the responsibilities that Monsignor Bacci defined...
...policy which called for semi-weekly publication of the regular weekly campus newspaper, The Seawanhaka. Tlumak's purpose for increasing publication, he said, was "to better inform the student body of campus activities," but the faculty objected to the new policy and the editorial board was told to revert to its old weekly policy...
...Lloyd Wright, himself a curmudgeon of stature: "Have just canceled order for my 15th Philco. I don't need anybody either. But you are a good deed in a naughty world." Snorted Oscar himself: "My leaving Channel 13 is a catastrophe for the community. The channel will now revert to its cloacal status with such intellectual pursuits as hypnotism and bingo...
...Broken & Bitter." To pragmatic Nikita Khrushchev, what all this meant was that liberalization was a failure and that it was time to revert to a hard line with the satellites. He may have been pushed to this conclusion, but on the record of his career of reversing himself, he was capable of reaching it on his own. In true Communist fashion he chose to serve notice of his decision not in a proclamation but in action-the execution of Nagy, Maleter & Co. Nor did anyone in the Communist world miss the point. Poland's Gomulka, described by his associates...
Only when it came to the great scowling Pantocrator (Christ) who dominates the central dome did Daphni's artists desert their classic inspiration, revert to traditional Eastern models. As if they feared that the elegant style of their other mosaics would appear unseemly, Daphni's artists made the Pantocrator one of the most grim and overpowering figures to be found in all Byzantine art. Far from offending, Daphni's Pantocrator today often strikes critics as a welcome antidote to sentimentalized and saccharine images of Christ...