Word: mosaicism
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...Mosaic, the publication of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Societies, has with its most recent issue reached its second-and-a-half birthday, which certainly means, reckoning by the ferocious rate of infant magazine mortality hereabouts, that it has attained its majority. True, Mosaic enjoys considerable financial support that other local little ones have never been able to find, but where oh where has it been able to find such an abundance of excellent copy? Coming of age has not withered Mosaic; and speaking as the past editor of another small Cambridge magazine, I can only marvel at its infinite variety...
What is it that makes Mosaic (Daedalus only excepted) the best magazine published in the Harvard community? I have been asking myself rather long-windedly. There is, as I have already mentioned, the quality of its copy and the variety of its interests--qualities which, in themselves, set it apart from its contemporaries. But, over and above these, there is, I think, a conscious and recent attempt to write for a variety of audiences: for the layman as well as the scholar, the Christian as well as the Jew. It is this effort to achieve what might be called...
Meanwhile. Yemen is opening up to the outside world. TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho last week found Strongman Sallal in his San'a home, sitting shoeless on a mattress, surrounded by fellow officers, adding an occasional cigarette butt to the litter of orange peels on the mosaic floor. Sallal offered a justification of his coup, which turned mostly on reminiscences of the incredibly corrupt and backward rule imposed on Yemen by the gross, 300-lb. Ahmad the Devil...
This bitter, brittle work has the qualities of a Byzantine mosaic. Its characters are rigidly, severely drawn; its setting is in "a tight house in a tight town where night has the depth of caves and daylight has no arch." It is written in a stream of harsh-sounding consonants, and its dialogue is a succession of jagged-edged monosyllables. Altogether, it is a novel calculated not to warm the reader but to awe him-a familiar feat for British Novelist James Hanley, 61, whose past novels have won him critical, but not popular, acclaim for their cold fury. Herbert...
...inscriptions of donors, including some inlaid in the colorful mosaic floors, provide a working key to the social status and organization of Jewish Sardis. Some of the donors held the office of city councillors; two were jewelers...