Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole set of dilemmas that thoughtful Israelis have debated without resolving: "Should we employ Arabs in Israel? Or should we put up artificial walls, refuse to hire them and fall back on our own labor? If coexistence means using Arab labor, then what does that do to the fabric of our society? Should we not seek more ties with the Arabs, teach more of our children Arabic, set up joint economic enterprises with them? Can we, if they are hostile? If there is no war, then there must be some kind of coexistence and mutual experience. On the other hand...
...brutal actions of the American government can never be undone. To our everlasting shame, they remain woven into the fabric of history as vividly as the bomb craters that pockmark the Vietnamese landscape. Yet this week we can take one small step to acknowledge our responsibility, to make a gesture of friendship, to begin to move away from conflict and toward a growing community of mutual understanding...
...Presidential campaign pledge to abolish the Congressional Slave Act, euphemistically called Selective Service, has turned out to be just as big a phony as was his promise to end the Vietnam War, which he extended instead to all of Indochina. By insisting upon the retention of the entire fabric of the old Selective Service Act at an annual cost of some 50-odd million dollars, he makes this promise absolutely meaningless. He apparently has no more respect for his promises than von Bethmann-Hollweg, as Chancellor, had for Germany's treaty obligation not to violate Belgium's neutrality during...
This sense of primitive energy permeated all Matisse's work, even a still life like The Blue Cloth, 1909; the whorls and cusps of the fabric, ultramarine laid into azure, twist and leap with the exuberance of dolphins, and are duly stabilized by the squat, familiar forms of coffeepot and flask. "Our only object is wholeness," Matisse declared. "We must learn, perhaps relearn, to express ourselves by means of line. Plastic art will inspire the most direct emotion possible by the simplest of means." And once art gained that absolute concreteness of sensation, it could become the "subject...
...were not. Sheet silver cards appeared in Augsburg at the turn of the 17th century, made for Orthodox Jews whose religious laws forbade them to touch pasteboard decks at Passover. Silk and cotton or plaited straw were inlaid into the cards to reproduce gay theatrical costumes in their original fabric, like the 17th century Pulcinello opposite. The superb min-chiate (or tarot) cards done in the 15th century by Bonifacio Bembo for Filippo Visconti, Duke of Milan, are so elaborate in their detailed painting, embossment and gilding that they could seldom, if ever, have been used...