ikon
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Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn."
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A sculpture like Saint Sebastian, 1957-58, its bronze skin crusted with the shapes of reclaimed junk that Paolozzi had incorporated into the mold, balances neatly between golem and ikon.
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They descended carefully, a step at a time, for nine floors, like a solemn religious procession bearing aloft a sacred relic or ikon.
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For as long as an ikon hung in the corner of a Russian izba, Patriarch Sergei would always be right.
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He nearly always carries a relic or a little ikon of some kind, and to this he frequently prays, kissing it at the same time.
From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by Morse, John
