Word: woven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coarse material from England called hopsack will be important again this season. It is woven from a six-ply yarn rather than the two-ply yarn used in most cloth, making a loose but warm weave...
Across the silent ages, these small treasures are the voices of a people both busy and devout: ivory angels carved on a comb, a double lamp in a twin-tailed bronze dove, a polka-dotted leather sandal, a rabbit nibbling round fruit on a woven wool square. Textiles-wall hangings for tombs, shirts and coats for the dead-form perhaps the highest level of Coptic art, and the hot, dry desert climate has preserved some of the best examples: representations of everyday occurrences, proud portrayals of heroic scenes, and obedient evocations of saints and holy acts...
...Shoes of the Fisherman, by Morris West. Catholic Novelist West imagines a Russian who becomes Pope just as his onetime interrogator becomes head of the Soviets. The resulting moral dialogue between God's man and Communism's master is woven into a texture of high drama...
Black Fox. Producer-Director Louis Clyde Stoumen has woven in illustrations from Goethe's Reynard the Fox to strike an allegory between the sly Reynard and the scheming Adolf Hitler, and the result is a fresh and trenchant look at Naziism...
...novel's distinction is the rich symbolic resonances woven around Brace's disintegration. Unwillingly representing the waning influence of the U.S. in Europe, Brace is seen partly as a throwback to the last of the Roman legionnaires in Germania. Making love to a local landowner's wife, he is the incarnation of Woden offering himself to the goddess of the forest. Even the shepherd Brace defends is not merely an old reprobate but a kind of Ur-brigand descended from the race of Jacob. As for the fox: Is he a fox? He may be Brace...