Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, both the number of activities and general attendance at Hillel has increased "non-dramatically" in the past few years. Hillel's program includes religious services, lectures on the Jewish tradition, courses in Hebrew, socials, folk dance classes, and publication of Mosaic. The lectures and services get the greatest numerical response, and this is consistent with Hillel's central goal to provide Jewish students with religious services and instruction. Civil rights work is a secondary aim of Hillel, although Rabbi Gold stresses that "this must be considered a paramount concern until the situation is better and there are enough organizations...
...yards change into three Lenines masquerading as Chinese and as seen from six yards appear as the head of a royal tiger. The painting lives up to every detail in its title. Explains Dali: "Eeet is like le floor of a hotel room que je stayed in avec mosaic and a rug shaped like the head of a tigre." The heads of Lenin, filling triangles between the mosaic squares are disguised as Fu Manchu, and the whole work forms a tiger head...
...other works, he combines mosaic tiles with additional media. For example, "Birth of the Water Lily" includes several blue and white enameled squares picturing an Indian myth (religious symbolism appears in many of his works). In some compositions--"Alice in Wonderland," "April"--Holleman sets a grotesque enamel figure against a neutrally colored, peaceful mosaic background...
...York is my wife," he told a friend, and he wed her with his art. In his Battle of Lights, Coney Island, done in 1914, he depicted a warring scene of roller coasters, kaleidoscopic lights and jumbled humanity in a mosaic of maddening motion. His masterpiece, New York Interpreted, finished in 1922, is a 22-ft. pentaptych guidebook to cosmopolitan clangor. The port drags the viewer in to see a leaping skyscraper, two aspects of Broadway and a bridge-an extension of man toward a world beyond or above...
...McLaughlin, whose 25th cover story this is, became one of assembling a mosaic out of varied, and often conflicting, reports. Two of our foreign sources-who did not know each other-happened to be riding on the same train in China. One described it as filthy, with bugs and bad water. The other thought it clean and the service fine...