Word: mosaicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...partner. It shows up thereafter only as a dark spot in microscope slides of her cells. But before it is muted, it starts the production of lines of cells that continue to live side by side with lines from the dominant X. So a female mammal is a "genetic mosaic...
...Late last week, in a scathing speech to a Republican group gathered at Hershey, Pa., Ike said: "To Republicans, 'the rights of men' is a living doctrine. To our opponents, it is a campaign catchphrase, a political gimmick to be cunningly exploited as part of the great mosaic which presents a public but deceitful image, known far and wide as concern for the common man-protection of the poor-champion of the people...
...subjected to the influence of that time and of his teacher L'Eplattenier, gave an opening to architectural decorations: "sgraffiti," mural painting, furniture, wrought iron, embossing, etc.... During the following years this school undertook building works (decorative, of course, since it was the fashion at that time): metal, stone, mosaic, stained-glass window (concert-room, church, fragment of a public edifice, etc...) One day everything collapsed before the rivalry and the hatred which had roused the old school against this New Section. The evolution of men, the manifestation of individualities, the divergences, finally overcame the enthusiasm...
...attracting competent writers who talk about what they know, the editors of Mosaic, have produced a literate magazine that speaks both to Jews and the community at large. Best wishes to the new board; may they continue the present trend of quality...
...only items of strictly Jewish interest in this Mosaic are a smooth and winning translation by Neal Kozodoy of a midrash called "The Death of Moses" and an adaptation of a lecture presented before the Harvard-Radcliffe Forum by Jacob Katz. Professor Katz, now visiting from the Hebrew University, is a world-famous expert on Judaism in the Nineteenth Century; hence it is a fine thing to publish him even though his command of English prose is not all it might be. His article, "Secular Interpretation of Judaism in the Nineteenth Century," will not electrify his professional colleagues, since...