Word: supplicationes
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Indeed, much of the Bee Gees' style (the name, coined by an Australian disk jockey, stands for Brothers Gibb) harks back to the days long past -1964, say-when love and idolatry dogged the Beatles' every step. The songs are simple, the beat steady, the tune up on...
At the top of his stretch, with his long arms straight up, Santiago's loose wrists would come together in an insolent, triumphant flick of glove and ball. At first, one though it was some kind of supplication. But it was a strong gesture, a determined yet casual Latin signal...
Pioneered by a turn-of-the-century Kansas Methodist preacher, Charles F. Parham, Pentecostalism asserts as its basic tenet the need for baptism by the Holy Spirit, the supreme manifestation of which is glossolalia, or speaking in tongues. Dissatisfied with the institutionalized quality of Methodist worship and spirituality, Parham took...
Her great mentor Degas perhaps caught her contrary character best in his 1884 portrait. Wistful, Cassatt sits in slight supplication, knees and wrists together, her eyes deflected in reverie, her hands holding playing cards like a fan. She was appalled that he depicted her with gambler's tools, but...
When the Roman poet Ovid wrote this supplication, "the present time" was roughly the time of Christ, when it was far easier to think of gods becoming men, beasts or monsters and to see the palpable world as the creature of unseen magical forces.