Word: babel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little that could be done for him, and even less that he could do for himself, as he lay in an overheated room, apprehensive and overly aware of all that was going on around him. The hospital sounded like the lower decks of a battleship. The corridors were a babel of squawk boxes, counterpointed by the gun-mount rumble of food carts, the depth-charge banging of slammed doors. Though some of his nurses were ministering an gels, Hodgins laments the modern hospital's chronic shortage of hands. "In the old days," he says, "a patient...
Wellington's Bugle. The man behind the world's biggest such babel is Curator G. Robert Vincent, 63, whose faith in sound-as-scholarship rests on the idea that "the voice is the surest index to character." Vincent got his idea back in 1913, when at the age of twelve he thrust a cumbersome Edison machine under Teddy Roosevelt's mustache and begged him to speak. In his oddly manful squeak, T.R. advised all boykind: "Don't flinch, don't foul and hit the line hard!" With that coup, Vincent began recording every sound...
...will be strictly nondenominational. Nevertheless, there are upwards of fifty significant sects in the United States holding somewhat heterogeneous concepts of Supreme Being. One trembles in the face of such diversity. Historically, it has given rise to knotty complications. Washington seems an improper site for a contemporary Tower of Babel...
...Pentagon is now teaching foreign languages to more than 200,000 students, biggest such Babel in the U.S. In Washington, D.C., and Monterey, Calif., it runs two of the world's most effective language schools-founts of the speak-first, grammar-later method...
...economic unity. They are the Eurocrats, those scarcely known bureaucrats and technicians who run the Common Market from the new headquarters on Brussels' aptly named (except for the British) Avenue of Joyous Entry. There are 2,450 Eurocrats-one-fourth of them translators who cope with the Brussels Babel of French, Dutch, Italian and German-and their aim is an overall European plan that will eventually govern production, wages and investment capital. In every idiom, they constantly repeat: "We are past the point of no return...