Word: mosaical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plumed horsemen clattered alongside her limousine as it drew up to the palace, and white-stockinged footmen, right out of a Mozart opera, lined the stairs. In the Chambre de la Reine, Jackie slept in a bed just vacated by Belgium's Queen Fabiola, bathed in a silver mosaic tub that had been installed for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, and gazed up at a ceiling swarming with Napoleonic cherubs. At the first formal reception, more than 2,000 top-ranking Parisians sloshed through the rainy night for a glimpse of the porcelain princess from America. After shaking...
After the reign of Augustus (27 B.C. to A.D. 14), brick pillars were built on the mosaic floors to support a building on a higher level. Earth packed between the brickwork and the walls saved the decorations. But before the walls disappeared, an irreverent person named Quintus, perhaps a bricklayer, scratched his name on the dead emperor's frescoes...
...pictorial experience, La Dolce Vita is superb; as a drama it is loose and aimless. Transitions from scene to scene succeed magnificently on a visual level, but make little sense in terms of dramatic development. Perhaps there is something appropriate about the mosaic in the Gary lobby which misspells the name of Moliere...
When the last tile in the mosaic was complete, Aub unveiled his masterpiece at the elegant Excelsior Gallery in Mexico City in 1958. Most of the Campalans paintings in the accompanying exhibition were snapped up. Said Famed Muralist David Siqueiros, thoroughly duped: "I knew Campalans well in Paris. Orozco liked him very much." A few weeks later Aub confessed his hoax. Mexicans fumed, then laughed embarrassedly...
Part of Current's trouble is a general problem faced by all American Catholics. At Harvard (and in America) there is not the same sense of an intellectual community for Catholics as for Jews. Mosaic reflects a sureness and even a kind of clubby smugness in possessing a public that Current nervously lacks. Current is not aimed at Catholic intellectual opinion, for the very good reason that there is no such thing. Catholicism in America--with the exception of a man like John Courtney Murray, or lone magazines like Commonweal and Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker-- is not a significant...