Word: mosaics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result is a fascinating picture of an ancient urban center. As described in the National Science Foundation journal Mosaic, the inhabitants of Teotihuacan lived primarily in windowless, one-story apartment compounds that opened onto courtyards. The compounds, which housed about 100 people each, were occasionally organized into barrio-like neighborhoods, but there was no real class separation in Teotihuacan. The researchers have found an almost haphazard mixture of classes and occupations throughout the city...
...shown, as we are shown in most tragedy, the conflict of two irreconcilable rights: Shylock's right to "justice" and Antonio's to humane treatment. Mercy and justice seem to be at odds. But the whole point of Shylock's Judaism is that only the old dispensation, the Mosaic law of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth," is incompatible with mercy. The coming of Christ means that mercy becomes law. In the language of the plays central metaphor--which appears to Shylock as a cheap trick but to Christians as God's grace--mercy...
...fighting of recent weeks smashed the complex mosaic of Lebanese life, reporters struggled to piece together the meaning of what was happening. But the depth of the country's despondency and disintegration sometimes emerged most clearly from isolated incidents. TIME correspondents sent these diverse vignettes...
...hand broke as Sills hit a high C in the lesson scene. Caldwell loved the idea and put it in. "As both conductor "and director, I am very much aware that it is those people up there doing it onstage," she says. "I can help them put the mosaic together, but unless they have participated and made some choices, it is nothing." There is never, however, any improvising with the music...
...ethnic roots from abroad and their perpetuation in American history. The Smithsonian's scholars reject with a shudder the "melting pot" concept of America. They believe in an ethnically diverse, pluralistic nation to which scores of cultures have supplied the pieces that make up the American mosaic...