Word: mosaical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's Great Russell Street has acquired, among other things, a 5,000-year-old porphyry frog from Egypt, a $1,000,000 collection of historical playing cards, the prow of a Viking ship, some rare 17th century music manuscripts, original letters of Kipling and Yeats, a mosaic pavement from ancient Rome-not to mention a copy of every book published in Great Britain...
Like previous numbers, the current issue of Mosaic is as professional as anything produced by undergraduates at Harvard. My only complaint is that with a bit of forethought the editors might have made even better use of their contributors' prodigious talents...
...objection to the unfortunate division of labor prescribed by the Mosaic editors is that a single review of both books might have indicated the vital connections between them. Graubard might have been encouraged to salvage the useful in Marcuse, and we would have been spared Bloom's diffuse comments on Origins...
...studying the wealth of artifacts unearthed at Masada, but have already learned enough to establish that Josephus was indeed a worthy reporter. The dates on both Roman and Jewish coins help confirm when the Jewish revolt against Rome began (A.D. 66), and when the Zealots died. The three-tiered, mosaic-floored villa and ceremonial palace built by Herod and later occupied by the Zealots also conform closely to the descriptions of Josephus...
...mien, remote and goddess-like. In part, their arresting effect comes from his daring use of materials. Guilty Eve of the Garden is a collage built round the photograph of a Vogue model's face; Virgin: A Consolation uses almost nothing but the backs of old canvases; Female Mosaic uses plastic-lace doilies as stencils. Even more surprising are such conceptions as She and Me, in which Stüssy's bearded face is superimposed on a nude figure, with Stüssy's glasses substituting for breasts...