Word: babel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...castle," or was it "a Turkish Babel?" asked the wags. Or was it a mixture of "the Mosque of St. Athanase, in Egypt," plus "the temple of Apollinop-olis at Etfou?" Cincinnati citizens, who watched it abuilding in 1829 didn't know what the devil it was-except that it was to be named "Trollope's Bazaar" and to supply high-priced fancy goods and foreign culture. But "every rogue within cheating distance" was working on it for the nutty British owner, 49-year-old Mrs. Frances Trollope. They were selling her bricks at three times the market...
Tottering on the pinnacle of this tower of Babel stands English, the language of the modern intelligentsia, business community and bureaucracy. More than a century ago there had been a nip & tuck d'ebate among India's British masters over a practical official language for their vast colony...
...busy, happy week for Carl McIntire. He had just published a new book (Modern Tower of Babel; Christian Beacon Press; $1.50) crammed to the covers with haymaker denunciations of his numerous enemies. He received word that two new denominations had voted to join his American Council of Christian Churches. But no less rewarding was the news that came from Madison, Wis. Before the Wisconsin Council of Churches, Theologian John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary had referred to some of McIntire's activities as "unscrupulous vilification." Exclaimed McIntire delightedly, "They're getting to be very conscious...
...Petelka was looking for converts to his "Numbered Words," a code language that would probably have more appeal for mathematicians than for poets or orators. Whether it would achieve any more practical success than several thousand other international languages, hopefully devised by linguists and peace zealots ever since Babel (among them: Esperanto, Basic English, Volapiik, Novial, Ido, Ro, Nulango), was another story...
...There was also hope that they would not meet in an overcrowded Tower of Babel but, as it were, upon a mountain top ... To some extent, events have moved in that direction but not in the spirit or the shape which was needed...