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...year later, young Lewis was in the hands of the ugliest man alive. "Oldie," as the boys dubbed him, was the half-insane master of a decrepit boarding school, "a big, bearded man with full lips like an Assyrian king on a monument, immensely strong, physically dirty." Smacking his lips after breakfast. Oldie would gaze round the classroom, pick the day's victim: "Oh, there you are, Rees. you horrid boy. If I'm not too tired, I shall give you a good drubbing this afternoon." When he could, Lewis would withdraw to an oasis of private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Reluctant Convert | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...projected Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs pictured in your May 23 issue: it may seem as "modern as ... aircraft" to its architects, but students of archaeology will find it a bit oldfashioned. The general layout recalls Khorsabad, which the Assyrian Sargon dedicated in 706 B.C., and Persepolis, which Darius I founded two centuries later. There also, low, oblong buildings with enclosed courts were grouped in the shadow of an imposing terrace topped by a temple, a throne room and a palace, or, in our parlance, a chapel, an administration building and a social hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs them that "there is no Hill 317"-in headquarters files, that is. Adam Ember, half delirious with hunger, has a vision of a huge headquarters filled with urgent requests from desperate commanders, from the Assyrian and Punic wars through the Napoleonic and on to the wars of the future. "Here they all lay. pigeonholed and neglected, covered by the same fine, unearthly dust of eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Forgotten Hill | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Hebrew, the fourth letter, Daleth is written Ψ. The Assyrian Daltu meant "door," or "jaws," the Greek Delta meant "mouth" of a river; the Hebrew Dal meant "door," "bucket," or "to draw water," the Assyrian Dalu meant "to draw water," and Dilutu meant "a bucket." The Luna constellation consisted of three stars arranged in a triangle, which could easily have taken the shape of both Daleth and Delta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Letters from Heaven | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...Brooklyn Museum stands a splendid statuette of almost solid copper, silently questioning knowledgeable visitors. The questions: "Do I represent a hero, a king, a priest, a demon, a god, or some ancient's idea of a joke? Was I molded and cast by a Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrian, Hyksos, Elamite, or by some barbaric genius of the Caucasus? Was my native city Eridu, perhaps, or Susa. Persepolis, Nineveh, Larsa, Lagash, Umma, Ur, Alalakh, or Hattusas? Am I 5,000 years old, or closer to a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Men of Mystery | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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