Word: vestment
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...Patriarch mounted the rostrum in the middle of the nave. Acolytes ceremonially stripped him of his outer robes and crown. Then over the Patriarch's shoulders they draped three layers of bright, resurrection-season vestments-scarlet and gold in place of silver, a crown of gold and rubies for the pearl-and-diamond one. As each vestment was presented to him on a velvet-covered silver salver, the Patriarch reverently kissed it. For the last time the acolytes came forward with the salver. Typically Russian pomp turned to typically Russian casualness. The Patriarch did not kiss the object...
...origins deals with epiphanies. "By an epiphany [Stephen] meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. . . ." When one perceives the epiphany of an object, "its soul, its whatness leaps out to [one] from the vestment of its appearance . . . [becoming] that thing which it is. . . ." Stephen felt that it is the artist's duty to record epiphanies...
...background such as might at once lend to a U. S. Archbishopric the character acquired by the Anglican ones through the centuries. He has a home in Providence full of antiques and paintings, a large library, a summer home in Massachusetts, and a costly cope (capelike ecclesiastical vestment) which excited much comment at last year's Catholic Congress in Philadelphia, whither he had it shipped in an enormous packing case (TIME, Nov. 6). Bishop Perry is an enlightened, cultured divine whose genial oratory makes him especially welcome at public dinners. He is also the first Presiding Bishop to hold...
...much surprised if I were to tell you that there is a certain Wall Street international banker who was for years the vice president in charge of the foreign department of one of the largest Wall Street banks, then president of a smaller bank, then a Wall Street in vestment counsel, and who now represents himself to be the intimate adviser of Senator Thomas? This is not hearsay. This man has stated not once but several times that not only is he Senator Thomas's ad viser, but that he helps the good Senator to write many...
...Carlyle there has grown up the convenient myth that for him life was an eternal stomach-ache. This theory was put forward by literary critics to explain the epithetical bombast that he was pleased to call his literary style. This pleasant theory has since been taken up as a vestment of culture by intellectually striving debutantes whose only recollection of "Past and Present" is that it might have been a Vincent Club show of ten years ago. There is something rather dashing and knowing in the statement, "Oh Carlyle-a chronic dyspeptic," particularly if said with a sweep...