Word: fragmentism
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...made the cathedral world-famed. Among the earliest surviving examples of Gothic stained glass, they are also the best. Yet the men who created them were amateurs, who may have had some knowledge of enameling but had little or none of glass. They learned as they worked. Each tiny fragment of glass, averaging an eighth of an inch thick, was chipped with the care and precision that jewels require. Laid flat on a full-scale drawing of the window, the fragments were inserted into the grooves of malleable lead bars that formed the panels. Only after the completed panels were...
...editors struck one false note by devoting half a page to a two-line fragment of a letter from Thomas Mann, which consists of a polite refusal to submit an article. This might be construed as a gag, except that Mann's name appears on the cover and the table of contents, a summary of his distinctions appears in the Advocate Notes, and the author of the foreword proffers him "Our gracious acknowledgment"--a pretty way to put it--for his (relatively passive) part in making the issue possible. To push a famous name so blatantly is irritating and jarringly...
...scroll is believed to be the lost and legendary Book of Lamech, the story of Noah's father. Some 26 lines from a fragment of the manuscript have led archaeologists and Biblical experts to assume that the priceless scroll contains the story of Noah's youth, of the coming of the Great Flood, of preparations for buildings and setting afloat...
...last document had not withstood the pressures of time and the elements as well as the others. It was sealed, perhaps permanently. But a 26-line fragment led experts to believe that the scroll contained the legendary Book of Lamech...
...What we know is just the tiniest fragment," said a Wayne University professor of physics. "For the whole, we depend upon faith." Even the "law of chance" presupposes a law, argued an anthropologist. "Whose law? For me, I prefer the belief in a creator, divine, supernatural. I cannot accept chaos...