Word: jot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PROMPTLY at sunrise every Friday, the highest nobles and chiefs of the Mossi tribe gather outside the concrete palace in the capital of Upper Volta to go through a ceremony that has changed not one jot in centuries. Groveling in the dust, the chiefs render homage to the nobles and then in turn take homage from the multitudes around. When all that is done, drums begin to roll, and a plump young man of 28 suddenly appears, dressed in a bright red cap and robe. To 1,700,000 Mossi, the young Moro Naba is the incarnation...
...such solemn-silly moment, James gravely agreed with a British friend that a certain garden at Cambridge University was "the most beautiful small garden in Europe." James loved the undistinguished quick rather less than the illustrious dead; nowhere in his travel accounts was there a jot of sympathetic indignation about the plight of Europe's poor and humble; Twain's letters are aflame with...
Marcel Cardinal, an ex-commando captain, began underwater exploration out of curiosity, rapidly became an addict. He took to carrying a sketchbook with him to the Cannes beach, would plunge into the deep blue sea off the Côte d'Azur, then flipper to the surface to jot down notes. Worked up first in watercolor and finally in oils, his paintings evoke the mysterious transparency of undersea scenes where objects-a ship's hull, rock outcropping-loom more evocatively than their above-the-surface counterparts...
Preference for Form. Nivola's art lacks drama, which bothers him not a jot: "You know, many artists have been concerned to show the fury in the eyes of a man, but not me. I have a preference for form." That preference arises from many years of handling and cutting solid shapes. Nivola was born 46 years ago in a Sardinian village, and early apprenticed as a mason. He graduated from masonry to ornamental stucco work, and eventually won a scholarship to Milan's Art Institute. But he says he learned more as a skilled workman than...
Monstrous Jot...