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...lively, learned snippets from Graves's favorite golden boughs of etymology and historical myth, e.g., one of them traces an incestuous path down the lineage of Rome's haughty Caesars, another gets a hold on the book of Exodus, turns it upside down, shakes its patriarchal Mosaic to fragments, and finally puts it all together again in the image of Graves's inseparable muse, the so-called "White Goddess...
Their accuser, Whittaker Chambers, quietly went back over his old story: that Alger Hiss, a trusted government official facing trial for the second time on a charge of perjury, had fed secret documents into ex-Communist Courier Chambers' spy ring. But to the familiar mosaic he added a few sharp, new fragments...
...sandwich. Its north and south walls were the ice cream-solid bands of marble. The east and west walls were corrugated expanses of blue-green glass. Each wall consisted of 2,700 windows held by a tracery of aluminum. Their effect, said the FORUM, would be that of "a mosaic reflecting the sky from a thousand facets...
...anger. Ousted as president of the Zionist Congress in 1931 for his "pro-British" methods, he returned, by invitation, to pick up the cudgels again in 1935. "Jews are not going to Palestine," he cried to the Colonial Office, "to become in their ancient home 'Arabs of the Mosaic faith.' " To his old friend, Ormsby-Gore (the Colonial Secretary), he wrote that the Zionist policy of cooperation with Britain in Palestine had remained unilateral-"it was unrequited love." In 1939 the love affair came to a bitter end. The British government issued a White Paper which wiped...
...world in bits & pieces, reported it in snips & snatches of allusions to the Grail legend, to Frazer's Golden Bough, to Hindu philosophy. At the end, he says: "These fragments I have shored against my ruins." The shoring was not shoveling; it was the orderly construction of a mosaic. His purpose was not merely to describe disorder and frustration, but to contrast it with the possibility of a return to order and fulfillment...