Word: robing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world before joining the Camaldolites eleven years ago. is so devoted to the solitary life that he has special permission to remain in his cell without emerging, even for Mass, more than three times a year. Dom Augustine trudged the Manhattan streets a while in his ankle-length white robe and said: "This is my first look at the outside world in ten years. Well, it's the same old world-very noisy, very crowded. You don't have enough time to pray. So we hermits pray...
Footprints in the Snow. The old woman's story runs thus: she was once a simple, pious country girl who was groomed for the role of prophetess at Delphi's prosperous temple. There she was clothed in a bridal robe, learned to get along with the temple snakes, eat the sacred laurel and become the ecstatic "bride" of the god who emanated from the cleft of a rock in the depth of the earth. As a Pythia she was alone, a social outcast, feared and avoided by the plain people of Delphi. She was totally filled with...
...that for centuries had hung over the main altar. Preliminary cleaning flaked away the overpainting, revealed a lovely eye, "long, sweet and melancholy." Shipped to Rome's Restoration Institute, the painting has been carefully worked over for the past seven months. The Madonna which emerged, with amaranth-red robe, gilt-edged blue veil and glittering gold medallion is judged by critics the finest Martini oil painting known. Nonagenarian Renaissance Critic Bernard Berenson, who once called Martini "the most lovable of all the Italian artists before the Renaissance," said of the discovery: "It is certainly a masterpiece. And there...
...What man wore a robe to a Nieman-Marcus fashion show? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, To a King's Taste...
Nine months ago, in the township of Harere, on the outskirts of Salisbury, capital of the Central African Federation, little Elias first mounted the pulpit-a Pepsi-Cola crate. The six-year-old boy was handsome, dignified; he exuded authority and wore shoes. His mother, in a flowing white robe, stood behind him chanting softly and clasping her hands. About them gathered a crowd of naked children, zoot-suited men and women in gaily-colored print dresses. Little Elias threw back his head and closed his eyes. "Hear my word!" he cried in Shona, a native dialect. "It was your...