Word: mosaicism
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...book is a mosaic of fascinating vignettes, both ghastly and ridiculous. Railway workers were allowed to abandon the otherwise mandatory Heil Hitler arm salute because it was mistaken for a signal and caused accidents. Goethe's favorite oak tree near Weimar became the central point around which the Buchenwald extermination camp was built. In one village, a neighbor told a mother that the name of her missing soldier son had been read on a list of German P.O.W.s held by the Russians. Far from being grateful, the mother thereupon denounced her well-meaning informant to the authorities for listening...
...more. An exodus that already totals 5,000,000 and is still growing. A cholera epidemic that has barely begun, yet has already taken some 5,000 lives. It is an almost biblical catalogue of woe, rivaling if not surpassing the plagues visited upon the Egyptians of Mosaic days. And yet it is virtually certain that the list will grow even longer for the bedeviled people of East Pakistan. Last week, as fresh waves of refugees poured across the Indian border at the rate of 100,000 a day, they brought tales of pogrom against Hindus by the predominantly Moslem...
...straight line-it took Senator Brooke, for one, five weeks to come around-constitutes the miracle. There are times when one wishes that Harris had pressed senators more closely on their individual revelations. What were the reasons behind Margaret Chase Smith's "nay," for instance. Decision is a mosaic of the telephone calls, the speeches, the cloakroom chats, the evidence and the gaffs that were mobilized against Carswell...
...wholesome backgrounds only indicated to the jury that they had less reason to rebel than Atkins, who had suffered through a troubled adolescence. The death sentences bothered some, like the pious John Baer, who had to do some delicate rationalizing: "In the trial the defense lawyers said that the Mosaic law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth had gone out of effect nearly 2,000 years ago. I believe that although Jesus Christ came to show the way of love, we cannot live without the civil authorities until all people learn to live...
Meanwhile in Washington, the most dramatic blackout since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis saw, in the words of Diplomatic Correspondent William Mader, the same "intense expenditure of shoe leather, seemingly endless knocking on doors, convoluted probing and painstaking mosaic work." Over at the Pentagon, the messages were even fewer and farther between. "People were not talking because they just didn't know," reported Correspondent John Mulliken. "At one point a three-star Army general said rather plaintively, 'I was left out of Son Tay [the U.S. raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp], and I am embarrassed...