Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Hersey scored one of the year's popular successes with The Wall, a fictional-documentary study of the extermination of Warsaw's Jews under Hitler. Though its reporting devices got in its way as a novel, The Watt's story mosaic gave it a strong cumulative impact. In The Town, Conrad Richter finished a trilogy of fine, craftsmanlike novels about the Ohio Country pioneers. The trilogy put Richter in the first rank of historical novelists, though it started no stampede to the bookshops by fans of the frigate-bustle-&-bosom school...
Take, for instance, Frederick English's story called "Tied With Trembling." It contains a vast number of sensory images and descriptions, some of them good, and most of them undistinguished. Evidently these are meant to produce a mosaic pattern on the reader's mind, a blurred after-image. My mosaic turns out to be about a girl who goes through one or more traumatic experiences, grows up, and returns to her childhood home in the country. The story, however, is too fragmentary for more than a superficial understanding, and that, it would seem to me, is a distinct drawback...
...narthex of the mosque, workers successfully uncovered a ninth century mosaic showing Emperor Lee VI, (the Wise) prostrate before Christ enthroned. The southwest vestibule was found to contain a tenth century composition which pictures Emperor Constantine presenting to the Virgin and Child the City he founded and Emperor Justinian giving the Church he built...
...vault of the great eastern apse is now dominated by the "monumental" mosaic of the 14th century which shows the "Mother of God and the Child" looking down with compassion upon the worshippers below. The Archangel Gabriel, attributed to the ninth century mosaic painter Lazarus, flanks this scene...
After 20 years, the uncovering process is almost finished. Part of Whittemore's agreement with Attaturk was that the mosaics would all be uncovered by 1953 for the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantoniple to the Turks. He also had to promise to take no more than one full-sized reproduction of each mosaic work out of the church during or after their uncovering...