Word: babel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Woodhead Commission issued its conclusions. A Babel of contradictions and reservations, this report submitted two new partition schemes and in the same breath admitted it was impossible to divide the country into satisfactory economic, political, racial units. His Majesty's Government there on abandoned partition as "impracticable," announced it would try another timehonored, time-stalling method used successfully when Indian nationalism flared up. The Cabinet decided to call in London a round-table conference of Jews and Arabs and urge the two factions to compose their differences under the benevolent, watchful eye of the Mandatory.* Should...
...writer, a higher tribute to Powys the teacher. "Let no one suppose," says Brooks, "that Llewelyn Powys is merely another nature-writer, eloquent, observant and persuasive. He has something to say to this age of despair and darkness, an age in which writers in all the tongues of Babel repeat that life is futile and worse than nothing...
...Rather Be Right (book by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; produced by Sam H. Harris). Like the Tower of Babel, I'd Rather Be Right had the handicap of a tremendous buildup. Advance rumors of its superexcellence implied that its like had not been seen on Broadway in years. Written and scored by the two liveliest teams of playwrights and music writers in the U. S., its lead played by one of the most endearing veterans of the U. S. stage, I'd Rather Be Right simply...
Observing in their introduction that America is beset by a confusion of conflicting propagandas, a Babel of voices" coming from political parties, labor unions business organizations, patriotic societies' by word of mouth from millions of individuals, the analysts promised to give laymen a technique to test which current propagandas are good and which bad to examine the bias of channels through which they flow-press, radio, movies, churches, schools...
...Washington Monument, over Potomac Park both north and south of the Tidal Basin, across the river on Columbia Island and into the fields below Arlington National Cemetery on the Virginia shore. Everywhere barekneed youngsters in khaki perambulated through the streets with cameras and autograph books. Everywhere rose a babel of youthful voices, in childish versions of the accents of Maine and California, of Wisconsin and Texas. No connoisseur of mob scenes had ever seen such a sight; never before had the Boy Scouts of America held a National Jamboree...