Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portent. From Egypt last week came a hopeful ray for another dawn: Cairo turned on its lights, first of the war-benighted cities to do so. From Shepherds Hotel, caravansary for restless polyglots, lights blazed out again on the Mid-East mosaic: tanned cosmopolites sipping gin & limes on Shepheard's terrace; rattletrap taxis twisting up dust from the swarming streets; soft-voiced dragomans swishing at flies and barefooted fellahin ignoring them. Dawn's early ray found Cairo unchanged, unchallenging; but the city was free from fear...
Varda used to work on gesso (a smooth-surfaced, white mixture of rabbit glue and whiting solution) and with mosaics. He turned to collage because gesso and mosaics are too bulky, too expensive to transport, the ingredients are too dear-and Varda can snip out a collage in less time than it takes him to dream up a mosaic. "While the vision is full upon me," he says, "I can finish a whole painting [collage...
...song. But as a devoted artificer of words and as a distiller of experience, he has always been a poet, and a particularly fine one. Unlike many greater and lesser poets, moreover, he has constantly grown and changed. In his youth he was most notably a satirist; then a mosaic artist of exquisite sensibility, a man who used the perfected expression of past artists as frankly as he used his own, to arrange, fragment by fragment, edge by edge, an image of the desolation of his time (The Waste Land...
Said Schwartz: "I didn't have much defense in depth, so I decided we would have to pull out." Score: about 20 Japs killed, many more wounded; U.S. casualties, none. His charge was a minute action, but in the mosaic of New Guinea warfare it was typical of the bitter inch-by-inch, day-by-day battle to throw out the Japs...
Chief problem Rabbi Bernstein must solve is the pious Jewish soldier's daily fear of violating the Mosaic dietary laws. The Jewish Welfare Board has already made kosher canned foods available at various post exchanges, provides them free for soldiers unable to buy. Jewish soldiers who cannot get kosher food are urged not to feel they are sinning, because they are under military compulsion...