Word: woven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decorations. 32 awards, and belonged to 33 scientific societies. Last week, while visiting Aachen, the city where he made his mark in the Kaiser's Germany, the old professor died of a heart attack. He was 81. He had lived with aviation since its infancy and had woven the bright thread of his thought through every strand of its history...
...trouble seems to be that Kurosawa got fascinated with Dostoevsky's genius and forgot about his own. He follows with nearsighted assiduity every thread of the novelist's intricately woven tale. What's more, he too often tells the story in the author's words; he forgets to translate the words into correlatively compelling images. Nevertheless, the film skillfully counterfeits the look of Russia in the last century-it was shot in a small town in northern Japan in the dead of winter-and it brilliantly intuits the mystical spirit of Russian Christianity. The demonic nature...
...Woven from various historical strands and encompassing many communities with distinctly different purposes, the American "multiversity" has "no peers in all history among institutions of higher learning in serving so many of the segments of an advancing civilization," Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, declared last night in his first Godkin lecture...
...having written a bad novel and a good book. Her plot reads like a combination of Abram's Irish Rose and a study of that tedious 20th century malaise, Lack of Communication. But if her fiction is wanting, her historiography is not. With painstaking care, she has woven each of the skeins of medieval life into a vivid tapestry that shows the loutishness and insensitivity of the baronial landholders, the obtuseness of the peasantry, the twisted fervor of churchmen who found virtue in the wholesale slaughter of heretics, and the disturbing contrast between the warmth of Jewish communal life...
Working with an Italian libretto supplied by a former pupil, Ferrari Trecate had his three-act opera written within a year. But after one quiet 1953 performance in Parma, it lay forgotten until Rome decided to produce it again. Its minor-key Italianate melodies, skillfully woven into choral passages that hint of Negro spirituals, are warm and rich in legato beauty, completely devoid of any modernisms, reminiscent of Puccini. The first-night audience in Rome greeted it with 20 curtain calls, and Roman critics pronounced it good enough for the regular repertory...