Word: mosaicism
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...mined countries in the world, it is not a place in which to wander alone, especially at night. If you are traveling there, Girardet and Walter and their contributors are the people to guide you. And if you're not, an armchair journey yields an intriguing look at a mosaic of cultures and a harsh history that is still being shaped today...
...mined countries in the world, it is not a place in which to wander alone, especially at night. If you are traveling there, Girardet and Walter and their contributors are the people to guide you. And if you're not, an armchair journey yields an intriguing look at a mosaic of cultures and a harsh history that is still being shaped today...
Because Light emphasized the importance of diversity in first-year living arrangements, I decided to reconvene my freshman year roommates to take advantage one more time of the idyllic mosaic of freshman year housing. Well, actually, roommates is not the technical term. I lived in the pod on the 3rd floor of Hurlbut my freshman year so technically the women I reconvened were my podmates. But that’s a word we like to use sparingly...
...more comfortable; the way that you can claim entire floors for yourself—an impossibility in densely-peopled Lamont. I love that someone had a modernist vision so complete that the furnishings and even stacks echo the architecture. I love that this vision was not entirely practical. Officeholders mosaic their sterile doors with photographs in an effort to humanize them. Librarians look cowed by the empty space surrounding them. For the Scandinavian Modern chairs’ part, there is a bruise on my spine from a collision with one of them; I wear it like a badge of honor...
...stand up to such charged reality? Danticat, though, only 35 and already the author of three acclaimed works of fiction on her ill-starred home and one work of nonfiction, is undaunted. In The Dew Breaker she brings together myriad perspectives on the central torturer into a kind of mosaic. "It's a puzzle," as a teenage killer in one story says, "but a weird-ass kind of puzzle." A stained-glass window, he might be saying, catches a saint from the other world; a jigsaw puzzle catches someone far from saintly...