Word: babel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then Brigham clapped eyes on The Book of Mormon, a surprising document "translated" by one Joseph Smith Jr. from cryptic gold plates evangelically supplied out of a New York hillside called Cumorah. Therein it was set forth that two tribes had shipped direct to America from the Tower of Babel. The presence of Red Indians in America "proved" this. Joseph Smith Jr. had been commissioned the Lord's special and prophetic latter-day representative to re-establish Mor- monism...
...chorus. A tower of Babel type was quickly erected on the editorial pages of the Nation's newspapers. Editoriailzers who had learned to say "Yes," said "Yes" again, flew the eagle proudly over the waters of the earth, pointed the finger of scorn at all who opposed the aggrandizement of U. S. shipping, dubbed them "Little Americans...
...tower of Babel quickly erected. (Page 3, column...
Significance. At Babel, once a tower rose, heavenbound. But its build ers disputed, talked strange tongues, went unto the ends of the earth, con founded for blasphemy. Having accumulated humility and wisdom, and translated their tongues each into the others', the races are now come to gether again in new towers. They aspire not to Heaven, but to Knowledge...
...these days we are assisting at a kind of babel, a confusion of tongues, the whole hullabaloo being dominated by that long word "normalization," whose consistent ambiguity I have already clearly denounced. According to the Opposition we should become good Liberals and continue the traditions of the risorgimento for which the Liberals alone claim credit, while as a matter of fact some of its chief figures were Republicans, like Mazzini and Garibaldi, or Federalists, like Cattaneo, or even Socialists, like Pisacane...