Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mosaic is a confident and unpretentious little magazine put out by the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Foundation, and its fall issue demonstrates once again that a good little magazine can survive Harvard's indifference. Partly, Mosaic succeeds because it is interesting to read, but, after all, other interesting little magazines have drowned where Mosaic swims. A more persuasive reason is that this publication has a clear idea of what it is about, a definite community for whom it writes, and a comfortable (perhaps too comfortable) sense that it possesses what most people at Harvard lack--a cultural heritage...
Much more relevant to this century is the antinomian facet of Gordon's thought, which Leifer rejects as being alien to the Jewish tradition. Maybe that's why I like it (some of my best friends work for Mosaic, don't forget.) The antinomian (existentialist is the current word, I suppose) bias of thinkers like Gordon and Buber clearly do clash with law-centered traditional Judaism. But the absence of an absolute ground for morality in these two writers is not, as Leifer says, evidence that Judaism today lacks vigor. Rather, it is a token that Gordon and Buber...
...other non-fiction in this Mosaic is a sort of modern midrash of Jacob, by Arthur Gold. One of the lovely things about this kind of playing with Biblical myths is that, after the game's over, the Bible still remains. In this case, Jacob emerges intact after Mr. Gold's wise use of him to represent the dual spirit of the Jews: "Jacob," the grasping, shrewd Jew folk-hero, and "Israel," the man who wrestles with God. I suppose Gold is right, but I always thought Jacob had more of the former in him--particularly the way his troubles...
...tragedy. By rights, the saga of Dunkirk deserves a Homer, but even in the jabbing, boilerplate prose of British Journalist Richard Collier, a reliable but uninspired artisan of "The Day That" books (The City That Would Not Die-TIME, Jan. II, 1960), the story vividly recalls the curious, human mosaic of heroic and horrifying experience that was pre-Hiroshima warfare...
...liter spa has some sort of festival, and new ones are started every year. But today there is an increasing shift in emphasis to the drama. From the indoor stages of Scandinavia to the open-air théâtres antiques of Roman Provence, there is a heady international mosaic. Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, for example, will be done in Lallan Scots accents at Edinburgh (hoot, monsieur...