Word: gimell
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...image into a decorative Rorschach blot. But Louis destroyed much of his own work, editing heavily, and the sense of risk in the surviving paintings gave them an intriguing tension, as though their radiance had been snatched from the very jaws of entropy. His best works, like Beth Gimel, 1958, or Beth Chaf, 1959, touch upon the exalted otherness of nature (one might be looking at an aurora borealis or a butte), and their concentration on broad effect of light and color, coupled with the impersonality of their technique, seems to connect back through Georgia O'Keeffe's watercolors...
...profane use of them, but only to look at them in order that we may give thanks unto Thy name for Thy miracles, Thy deliverances and Thy wonders." On sidewalks and playgrounds, children are still playing with their dredel, the four-sided tops marked with the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he and pe-first letters of the words ness gadol haya po (a great miracle happened here). Said one urchin this week to an onlooking grownup: "In other countries, the last letter on the dredel is shin for shama (there). Aren't we lucky to be here...
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