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Loot for Rome. The kouros was found in 1959, when workmen in Piraeus, the seaport of ancient and modern Athens, dug up a busy street to repair a sewer. The statues lay on a mosaic floor and were covered with black dirt mixed with ashes and broken roof tiles, indicating that they had been buried in the wreckage of a fire. Deep among them the diggers found a coin that was issued in 87 or 86 B.C.-which strongly suggested that the kouros must have been covered over about that time...
...peculiar quality of Aramaic forced Jesus to think in certain ways. Unlike Greek or Latin, it has few specific words to express philosophic concepts; most abstract ideas can only be suggested by concrete metaphors, which have often been misinterpreted in translation. When Jesus, for example, used the phrase from Mosaic law, "an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," it did not mean-as untutored readers of the King James version might assume-that justice demands violent revenge for violent crime. "This would be contrary to the Jewish law of loving one's neighbor...
...when, Ted Williams, the baseball player who served with Glenn in the Marines, a minister who was his boyhood companion in New Concord and remembers his enthusiasms for Glenn Miller and Buck Rogers, his old commanding officer in Korea, all provide chips of bright color that fit into the mosaic of Astronaut Glenn's life...
Buried away in this welter of polemics, a beautiful and well-modulated voice cries out for your attention. Stephen Sandy has written two new poems. The first, The Castor Bean Garden, is easily the most worthwhile item in this Mosaic, and also the most competent, well-pruned poem I have read in a Harvard publication. Sandy's intricate patterns of internal rhyme and his lush, but controlled alliteration give his poem just the the right form to complement his subject matter, which is the opposition of careful symmetry and undisciplined luxuriance. His second piece, Shoppers' World, struck me as slightly...
...were not for Sandy's poems and the excellent trio of reviews at the end, this number of Mosaic could hardly justify its existence. Still, past issues of this magazine have all met a higher standard, and the new editorial board, which will plan the spring edition, can comfort itself with its vast opportunities for improvement...