Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mosaic construction, his occasional savagery, his new instrumental groupings seemed shocking in the early 1890, they were already conventional in the 1920s to ears becoming domesticated to the wild rhythms of Igor Stravinsky or the pulverized harmonies of the atonalists. About Stravinsky and his experiments, Sibelius remained steadfastly unenthusiastic; the works of Arnold Schoenberg he found "unsympathetic." Speaking of his serious, sometimes forbidding style, Sibelius said: "Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure water." But as he went on his own lonely way, he took huge, enthusiastic audiences with him: no serious composer...
...week for a final figure to guide them in fixing the twelfth consecutive steel price rise since World War II. As soon as word came of another jump in the cost-of-living index, which meant an automatic wage boost for steelworkers, statisticians swiftly added the change to a mosaic of other figures on increased costs, including the industry-wide wage hike called for in the contract signed last year. Soon after, U.S. Steel President Clifford F. Hood announced a steel price boost averaging $6 a ton. Before the week was out, the nation's other steel companies moved...
...sophisticated Romans built of enduring stone, brick, concrete and mosaic, and Britain is strewn with the ruins of their villas and fortifications. But the barbarian Anglo-Saxon bands that invaded Britain after the Roman legions withdrew in the 5th century lived in crude timber buildings that rotted away with the centuries, leaving only the faintest of traces. Last week Archaeologist Brian Hope-Taylor reported the discovery and exploration of the biggest early Anglo-Saxon structure yet found in Britain-one of the rectangular great halls described in Beowulf, where a leader's thegns gathered to tell tall stories...
...Jews last week as they dedicated a new synagogue that ranks with the most impressive in the U.S. Brown brick and somber on the outside, surrounded by twelve acres of brown gravel parking space, on the inside Temple Emanu-el sparkles with stained glass, gold, green and blue mosaic work, and a curtain of shimmering metallic cloth in front of the Ark. The temple, at the intersection of Northwest Highway and Hillcrest Avenue, cost its Reform congregation $2,000,000, stands on one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the city's bustling northwest...
...Europe." But the destiny of Venice remains constant, to be "the observed of all observers." The latest to succumb to the spell of the floating city is Critic and Novelist Mary McCarthy (TIME, Nov. 14, 1955), who has fashioned the spectacle of Venice into a handsome and intelligent mosaic of art, history and personal impressions. Complete with 46 elegant color reproductions and more than 100 photographs, Venice Observed is a model travel book in that it heightens the reader's perceptions and gives him a sense of place without sentimentally usurping the place of sense...