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."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The American delegation said he was not invited, tried to send him home, thawed out grudgingly when the Russians decided to make a "black ikon" of him.

From Time Magazine Archive

They descended carefully, a step at a time, for nine floors, like a solemn religious procession bearing aloft a sacred relic or ikon.

From Time Magazine Archive

A beautiful ikon, flowers, and two lights adorned the temporary altar.

From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert