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...must somehow be channeled to reach the needs of man, as a great river may be diverted into a system of ducts to irrigate fields." But how to embody this concept? The first angels in Christian art look like ordinary men, whether painted on catacomb walls or preserved in mosaic on the 5th century walls of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. What the artist stresses is the power of assuming human shape and walking among men, who "entertain them unawares...
...sometimes interchangeable. The traditional pattern for both consisted of a head, hands, feet and six wings-one pair pointing down, one pair up, and the third pair spread to fly. It was a formula that could achieve a hierarchic majesty-no angelic being radiates more effortless authority than the mosaic cherub in St. Mark's in Venice, unfurling his blue wings against a blaze of gold mosaic. In the general humanization of angels during the Renaissance, the cherub's presence quickly succumbed. He became crossed with the amoretti, or baby cupids, of antiquity; the result, a tumbling, rosy...
...20th century music making at its best. Having established himself as a splendid standin, Thomas was asked to fly to London on short notice in May to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra. He was brilliant, especially in Stravinsky's Huxley Variations, a fiercely difficult musical mosaic that he seamed together with high craftsmanship. Said Stuart Knussen, principal double bass and board chairman of the cooperatively run orchestra, "He is one of those unique complete musicians who seem to appear, if at all, in America. We don't have them in England...
DEPORTING from Moscow is-like piecing together a delicate mosaic," notes TIME Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter. "Rumors, tips, observations and the dogged detail of the official press, form the pattern." Indeed, for Schecter, the patterns for this week's cover story on Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and the Russian military began to form soon after he arrived in the Soviet capital 20 months...
...Government sources; in New York, our Russian desk added fur ther expertise. The actual stories were put together under the di rection of Senior Editor Ronald Kriss. The piece on Russia's political and socio-economic climate was written by William Doerner, while David Tinnin completed the mosaic with the report on the military...