Word: babel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TOWER OF BABEL by Morris L. West. 361 pages. Morrow...
IVES: ORCHESTRAL SET NO. 2 (RCA Victor). This is a first recording of a three-movement symphony finished soon after Three Places in New England and like it a Babel of musical quotations. The first theme, worked and reworked in the movement called An Elegy to Our Forefathers, is from Old Black Joe: "I'm coming, I'm coming...
...decided to relax the Trappists' rule of silence, a step allowed under the Second Vatican Council's decree authorizing Catholic orders to modernize their codes of behavior. The world's 80 Trappist monasteries (including twelve in the U.S.) are not about to turn into Towers of Babel; but Trappists henceforth will be allowed to speak "a very limited number of words," to be determined by individual abbots...
Communist treatment of dissenting writers has undeniably improved: in Stalinist times, Isaac Babel was killed; today, the Russian novelist Andrei Sinyavsky is merely in prison. Still, it takes courage for a citizen to criticize a government east of Austria. Czechoslovak Writer Ladislav Mnacko has courage and cunning too. By submitting this scathing dismemberment of the new Communist ruling class to a Viennese publisher, who then sold the rights all over the free world (TIME, March 17), he has blithely ignored the whole machinery of censorship, and so far he has got away with...
...ingenious extremes to explain away Nabokov's limited emotional resources or the coldness that occasionally turns high comedy into desolating farce. More important, he seems to lack breadth: it would have been good for the reader to find some comparison of Nabokov with such a contemporary as Isaac Babel, another great Russian who stayed home to his grief, or with such predecessors as Tolstoy and Henry James. Within these limitations, the book offers clear thinking and uncluttered prose; it is a fitting guide to the most complex, demanding and fertile novelist now writing...