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Many are poor, unskilled laborers or craftsmen in specialized trades-rugmaking, jewelry, leatherwork-that have little need for their services. Few can find work, and bitterness among the North African Jews is growing stronger. Recently, a Jewish ex-policeman from Constantine stormed into the Marseille headquarters of the United Jewish Fund and demanded a decent suit of clothes so he could find work. "Do you know what I did today?" he roared in shame. "I sat down to lunch at a sidewalk cafe and left without paying." Many French Jews are less than happy to see their ranks swelled...
...prayers for the quick demise of the "antisocial, reactionary, squandering, lecherous, oligarch Saud. his family and supporters." In retaliation, Saud, who once financed a $5,000,000 plot to kill Nasser, this year barred delivery of the kiswa, the canopy for the holy Black Stone in Mecca that Egyptian craftsmen had spent almost a year weaving. Making a new 800-yd. embroidered covering for the shrine has been a prerogative of Cairo each year since the 17th century, but months ago Saud announced that because last year's kiswa "was made of inferior cloth" and quickly faded, Egypt need...
...centuries B.C., some of the finest artisans were to be found in the south, especially around Taranto, the last of the great Greek western colonies. Never before had craftsmen worked with such ingenuity or achieved greater elegance: earlier ornaments like the amber head, made 2,500 years ago (the color caption is in error), had a rather childlike innocence. The blue bronze hands may have been used to decorate some sort of handle; whatever their secret, they remain one artisan's lasting tribute to feminine grace. Of all the collections in the Taranto region, the richest was found...
...Mies van der Rohe and to a lesser degree Walter Gropius. Mies, declaring the doctrine of "less is more," gave modern architecture its greatest discipline and refinement-the spareness visible in glass and metal in any American city. And German-born Walter Gropius, with the artists, architects and craftsmen of his famed Bauhaus at Dessau in the '205, established the grammar of design suited to modern mass production. They made simplicity and austerity and a faithfulness to function the liberating marks of the International Style...
...violated, debasing the semifeudal values of a landed gentry. In Tennessee Williams, what is violated is love and a kind of vagrant individuality. In Carson McCullers, there is the violation of innocence. At its best, this mixture of grief and grievance is poetic, at its worst, bathetic. As craftsmen, the Southern writers are generally sloppy; they represent the triumph of mood over matter...