Word: virginal
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...changes do excise some of the gloomiest theologizing of the Anglican past. The burial service, for example, omits "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." In the Te Deum, God, who "didst not abhor the Virgin's womb," becomes who "didst humble thyself to be born of a virgin...
...Ruby, Rose. "I was born black, almost strangled by the umbilical cord," she says. "Maybe that is why I have such good lung power." It is why she was christened Montserrat. Her mother, fearing for the life of her black-faced baby, prayed to the Virgin of the nearby monastery of Montserrat, a statue sculpted in wood that has become so darkened by age and candle smoke fhat it is known as the Black Virgin. Daughter of an industrial chemist, Caballé was enrolled in Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo at nine, worked as a seamstress...
...Magi, one of the great treasures of the Italian Renaissance, painted in the 15th century by Benozzo Gozzoli on the walls of Florence's Medici-Riccardi Chapel. Other masterworks in the show include Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Botticelli's Madonna Magnificat, El Greco's Virgin with St. Ines and St. Tecla, and Giorgione's Adoration of the Shepherds...
...into his act. He tilts at windmills, mistakes an inn for a castle where he is to be knighted, swears that a barber's basin is a golden helmet, and with chivalric ardor vows devotion to a lusty serving-wench (Joan Diener), whom he views as his dream virgin, Dulcinea...
...very day of her marriage to a husky serf, invoking the ancient droit du seigneur whereby a nobleman may claim ''the right of the first night" with any bride in his domain. The local priest (Maurice Evans) fusses a bit, suggesting that he choose another virgin, but his lordship will have none of them...