Word: classics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command, the combined-services organization set up last fall to run the continent's $18 billion air-defense system. Hailed in its early months as a model of interservice cooperation, by last week NORAD was proving itself something quite different: a classic example of the sort of interservice rivalry that President Eisenhower's defense-reorganization plan is designed to prevent...
...classic one over "the bewildering mesh of God." over why the innocent must suffer with the guilty, how leaders must move forward stricken with guilt. It is a searching enough theme to build a play around, though scarcely a key theme for a play about Moses. But the real trouble is that Fry offers so little to build with-neither real dramatic bricks nor real psychological stones, only philosophic shards and ethical bits of glass. A story that, told as vivid theater, might blaze with Biblical fire, seems quite unwarmed. A story that, recounted as high drama, might seem grandly...
Daphni's mosaic designers worked at a time when Byzantine artists, moving away from elongated and stylized forms, turned for suave beauty and expert molding to the long-ignored classic Greek models. The arrangement of the mosaic murals, more than 60 in all, followed the traditional pattern, with the Virgin supreme in the apse, and prophets and saints on arches, vaults and niches. The apostles and bishops attending the Virgin Mary have the mien and carefully draped robes of the Greek philosophers. On one shell beneath the central dome the Angel of the Annunciation with classic countenance floats against...
Only when it came to the great scowling Pantocrator (Christ) who dominates the central dome did Daphni's artists desert their classic inspiration, revert to traditional Eastern models. As if they feared that the elegant style of their other mosaics would appear unseemly, Daphni's artists made the Pantocrator one of the most grim and overpowering figures to be found in all Byzantine art. Far from offending, Daphni's Pantocrator today often strikes critics as a welcome antidote to sentimentalized and saccharine images of Christ...
...Grey Tin-Foil. Not all readers will agree that Dr. No, which Macmillan will publish in the U.S. in July, is magnificent writing, but pages of it, at least, qualify for Ezra Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: "At last, an unprintable book that is readable." Secret Agent Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate some mysterious goings-on on a neighboring island. His unknown foes promptly plant a six-inch venomous centipede in his bed ("Bond could feel it nuzzling at his skin. It was drinking! Drinking the beads of salt sweat!"). Bond gets...