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...building resting lightly on stiltlike pilotis. Within the Y is space for UNESCO's 1,200 workers, each one with a window on Paris; there will be small conference rooms, a bank, workshops, two restaurants, doctors' offices and libraries. On the ground, the architects plan a mosaic-tiled pool, a delegates' patio, and off to one side a squat conference building with a large auditorium and a radical, accordion-pleated roof so strong that it needs only one line of interior pillars for support...
...portrait of a saint," writes Clare Boothe Luce, "is only a fragment of a great and still uncompleted mosaic-the portrait of Jesus." Although a sizable portion of Christendom (including the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox communions) honors the saints as man's intercessors with God, historical distances have dimmed most saintly portraits even for the modern Christian, to say nothing of the skeptic who lives next door. To show the "timeliness" of the saints in 1952, Clare Luce has edited Saints for Now (Sheed & Ward; $3.50), 20 sketches of triumphant Christians of the past...
...violent-a skirmish between Proserpina's lover and the police, an old-fashioned hair-pulling and biting scene between Proserpina and her jealous rival, and near the end, a rooftop death battle between a stranger and Proserpina's evil friends. Musically, Composer Castro offered only a dissonant mosaic. There were vigorous Latin rhythms and fresh and sometimes stringent harmonies, but no big, powerful themes, and only snatches of anything hummable...
Truth, Light, Reality and a hand in the "replanting of the sacred and seminal Mosaic vision of the Wholeness of the Tree of Life" are the benefits offered the youth of the world by a strange pamphlet entitled "Logos--First Seed of the Fourth Planting...
Whether the gap is closed or not, the patterns of the new Hawaiian mosaic are not likely to be altered for the worse. The changes that have taken place in the swift decade have as much to do with the heart and spirit as with economics. Struggle ill becomes an island paradise. In a few more years, the worlds of Walter Dillingham, Jack Hall, Hiram Fong and Sakae Takahashi may relax together into the old Hawaiian custom of enjoying living...