Word: mosaicism
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After a 13 year absence, the literary magazine Mosaic will resume publication under the auspices of the Harvard/Radcliffe Hillel...
...original Mosaic was published from 1960 to 1972, and featured articles by writers such as Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps, and New Republic publisher Martin Peretz, said Sarai Brachman '88, who is organizing the magazine's revival...
...incomplete electronic mosaic drew the ire of one American viewer. During an interview on ABC's Nightline, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger criticized the "absolutely one-sided account of the correspondents." Said Kissinger: "There is something demeaning about having three networks covering a victory parade over the United States in the city of the country where the victory was achieved...
...branches of the historical novel tradition. Combining the solid factual background of authors like Tuchman or even Michener with the torrid, and sometime, sordid, human details of John Jakes and Harold Robbins. Hersey manages both to inform and to entertain throughout almost 700 pages. And he weaves his complex mosaic around one central, compelling theme--the hidden disaster embedded in the "offer" by the West, and "acceptance" by China, of the "forbidden fruits" of modern arts, science, and Christianity...
FROM THE BOOK'S many anecdotes--some rouching, other terrifying--Swanson constructs a fairly grim mosaic of South African reality. He provides ample illustration of the humiliating laws of separation, or "petty apartheid," but is concerned foremost with stressing the broader significance of apartheid; how the minority white regime has used a theory of racial separation to maintain class domination, transforming the color line into a poverty line as well. And despite superficial reforms aimed at placating international opinion, the captains of apartheid are standing firm behind these policies...