Word: scribes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SOME SPINNERS of Harvard tales, sex is so cerebral that the act becomes almost unrecognized, submerged in a sea of ponderous figurative philosophizing. Pays Levine, the volcano queen, is one such scribe; another is George Anthony Weller '29, whose long novel Not to Eat, Not for Love appeared in 1933. At the end of the book, an undergraduate named Epes Todd goes all the way with a girl named Ellen in his Fine Arts tutor's apartment, but it requires a real piece of textual analysis to figure out what is going...
...really "writing," third-graders must be taught writing all over again. Schools switch to one of several cursive systems based on the fanciful scripts taught elementary the U.S. in the 18th and writing. centuries, in-the Spencerian style vigorously promoted in the mid-1800s by Platt Rogers Spencer, a scribe and teacher. All these cursive systems, of which the most familiar is probably the variation devised by another teacher, Austin Palmer, are full of accident-prone loops that only a 19th century copper engraver could properly master. Teachers get as discouraged as students...
...solution, calligraphers say, is a simplified version of italic, one of the predominant handwriting styles of the Italian Renaissance. It was developed by Ludovico degli Arrighi, a Vatican chancery scribe, who in 1522 composed the first writing manual for popular use, La Operina. Like much Western writing since antiquity, this simplified italic is written with a broad-edged pen, yielding a pleasing alternation of thick and thin lines, depending on the angle of the stroke. It is also easy to write because it follows the natural movement of the wrist. The writer need only obey the pen to create...
...production strongly influenced the Bauhaus school of design, which his former assistant Walter Gropius founded in 1919 at Weimar. In graphics as in industrial design and architecture, the Bauhaus stripped away historic associations and ornaments in a search for essences. Letter forms no longer followed the paths of the scribe's pen or engraver's burin, but were constructed with ruler and compasses. The new type faces, posters and symbols were not always easily legible. But they were blunt and provocative, the ideal style for mass communication, advertising and propaganda...
...moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all," wrote the demon scribe in expounding the fine points of satanic strategy in C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters. Screwtape would have enjoyed comparing notes with officials from the Soviet Union's State Council on Religious Affairs. At least so it would seem from an extraordinary Soviet study now circulating in the West. The secret report, reputedly written in 1975 by Council Deputy Chairman Vasili Furov, assessed the condition of the still enormous Russian Orthodox Church for the Communist Party Central Committee. In striking contrast to provisions...