Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the formal division, the volume is an organic whole, fitted together with the care of a Byzantine mosaic-maker. Here is a historian who deals intimately and knowingly of economics, ethics, and politics, and who is able to shatter the artificial barriers between them. Here is a Briton with the moral and intellectual courage to admit that his nation has lost her position of world leadership. Here, above all else, is an academic man without an academic mind...
...activity is the deluxe Shepheard's Hotel, where males in civvies look as out of place as nuns in a nudist colony. During the day the broad mosaic-floored terrace is empty while the officers are at work. The brown wicker chairs begin to fill around 6:30 p.m., and by 7:30, the hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst...
There are, fundamentally, two ways of making a stained-glass window. The first, or medieval method, is to fit small snippets of already-colored glass together in a huge mosaic, outlining the design with the intervening lines of lead. This method is the one responsible for such masterpieces of glazing as the windows of the Cathedrals of Chartres and Bourges. The second, or Renaissance method, dates from the 14th and 15th Centuries, when, instead of outlining their designs with lead, artists began to paint them boldly with pigment...
...rather than glaziers, the design may be drawn as freely as the artist desires. Because Renaissance-style stained glass was easier to handle, employed larger panes of glass and permitted far more freedom and subtlety of color and design, it completely supplanted, somewhere in the 17th Century, the earlier mosaic technique. Medieval glazing became temporarily a lost...
...American Jews are among them. They look on Judaism as a religious rather than as a racial concept. Few of them call their house of prayer a synagogue or go to worship there on Saturday. Instead, they call the synagogue a "temple," worship on Sunday like Christians, ignore the Mosaic dietary laws...