Word: woven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatnik Raymond Duncan for his 88th birthday blowout. The bespectacled old expatriate, whose pad is almost a photographic shrine to his late sister, Dancer Isadora Duncan, gave them a weirdly nostalgic show. In a quavering saloon tenor he sang My Old Kentucky Home; then, unshorn silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food and no smoking were allowed, did not get the scene at all. Said one bewildered beard to another...
...commission." In 1931 F.D.R. surprisingly confessed: "If I were starting life over again, I would probably give first thought to making advertising my career . . . because it combines real imagination with a deep study of psychology.'' But today. Americans talk about advertising more than ever because it has woven itself inextricably into the texture of their everyday lives. The first songs sung by today's toddlers are less apt to be nursery rhymes than mesmeric radio and TV jingles. Millions of Americans might have trouble identifying Ernest Hemingway, but it would be hard to find one who does...
...easy phrase can encompass the Commonwealth's diverse but like-minded, vague sounding but specific, loosely linked but powerfully woven partnership of more than 700 million people on six continents. Last week Canada's John Diefenbaker and Australia's Robert Menzies warned that by ending the Commonwealth's preferential trading agreements, Britain would cripple the Commonwealth itself. But there are many other concrete bonds between its members. Among them...
...Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead. In this rich historic tapestry (1791-1962), the author has woven with equal skill the look of the great river itself and the lives of the great figures - rapacious explorers, splendid Mamelukes, the invading Emperor Napoleon - who struggled along its shores...
...pioneers of the renaissance of European tapestry and is represented by twin tapestries, inspired by a visit to Tahiti, called Polynesia: The Sea and The Sky. Poland commissioned five original designs, considered by many the most interesting tapestries in the show because of their crude, rough-woven finish of thick wool sometimes interlaced with straw. Also highly praised was the Japanese technique of Tsuzure-Nishiki demonstrated by Hirozo Murata's silk and gold Hunting, a scene of horsemen with bows and arrows. In Tsuzure-Nishiki tradition, Japanese weavers compress the weft as it is woven into tapestry, using their...