Word: mosaicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring issue of Mosaic is less than the community has come to expect. Most of the articles are timely but all too predictable. Three of the four nonfiction pieces deal with race relations; the fourth is on Jews in the Soviet Union. Every issue of Mosaic ever published has probably had a similar article. More importantly, a certain dullness prevades the magazine. The prose stays consistently at a drab, B-level. Nothing sparkles, nothing excites between these grey covers...
...honey-colored presidential palace atop a hill overlooking the capital city of Nicosia, Ball argued for three days with Makarios, a bearded ecclesiastic who might have stepped into the present day from an llth century Byzantine mosaic. Ball quoted chapter and verse to Makarios, showing that the U.N. in previous actions has usually favored the maintenance of the status quo and has repeatedly approved partition as a solution to communal disputes-a solution abhorrent to Makarios and the Greek Cypriots. Throughout the negotiations, Makarios would nod sagely as if agreeing with every point Ball raised. Then he would beatifically repeat...
...simply a mail drop for Communist Chinese spies. Though the newspapers contained no military secrets, Peking's intelligence agents apparently read them avidly for hints of U.S. army morale, announcements of troop movements, maneuvers and other tidbits that might fit into a larger mosaic of U.S. military effectiveness...
Efficiency v. Elegance. To keep pace with a London-based staff that grew from 75 to 2,262 in its 96 years, the Foreign Office desperately divided and subdivided its ornate acreage. Today it is a dim maze of minute, plywood cubbyholes linked by mosaic-floored corridors and a warren of back stairs. Many of the garrets have no windows, or only a piece of one, and most of the windows cannot be opened anyway. Even the mouse-ridden attics have been carved into typists' collectives and digs for bachelor-duty officers...
Plumbing fixtures, like everything else, are increasingly decked in "decorator colors"-the most popular, predictable pink. Second most popular is light brown. Floors may be vinyl or ceramic tile, walls may be the latest Italian mosaic, but the commonest materials for wash basin, toilet and tub are old-fashioned vitreous china and enameled metals. The w.c. of tradition is one of the last holdouts against the Plastic...