Word: supplicationes
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In most of Lipchitz' work, there is evidence of a force and virility possessed by few contemporary sculptors, but, except for his earliest sculpture, there is very little conventional beauty in anything Lipchitz has done. Prometheus Strangling the Vulture II is typically powerful, but it is also unnecessarily cluttered...
"On this Christmas Eve," said Dwight Eisenhower, "all hearts in America are filled with special thanks to God that the blood of those we love no longer spills on battlefields abroad. May He receive the thanks of each of us for this, His greatest bounty-and our supplication that peace...
Razing the Roof. He still had one item of unfinished business: revenge on the bazaar merchants, 80% of whom had cooperated with the strike. (The merchants dislike Premier Zahedi's government because many of them are no longer able to connive in profitable import deals.) In reprisal, the cops...
Ten mosaics in the Hagai Sophia--enough to give a clear idea of the style--have been uncovered. A panel of Christ receiving the supplication of his mother and John the Baptist is included. The works are said to have been fashioned when the church was the center of Eastern...
On July 28, 1924, a TIME story reported: "William M. Butler, campaign manager of President Coolidge, announced that his candidate would not go on the stump, but would campaign by radio from the capital. The radio-casters* threw up their hands in supplication and distraction." The trouble was, it seemed...