Word: babel
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...desires" (the same line is quoted in For Ever Mozart). A French playwright (Michel Piccoli) is hired for a rewrite job by an American producer (Jack Palance) who has eyes for the writer's sexy wife (Brigitte Bardot). With its polyglot cast and mixed-doubles leering, Contempt gets the Babel and Babylon of filmmaking down perfectly...
Modernization turned out to be a digital Tower of Babel. Treasury Deputy Secretary Lawrence Summers, charged with looking after the IRS, says, "I think modernization has gone way off track. They tried to build the Taj Mahal." Senator Bob Kerrey, co-chairman of the restructuring commission, describes tax modernization as a failure. Says Kerrey: "While the world has moved into the wireless age with home banking, atms on every corner and stock investing over the Internet, IRS technology has remained stagnant...
...there limits to the knowledge that we can gain? If one believes God controls or monitors the affairs of mankind, the account of his defeat of those who wanted to build the Tower of Babel would indicate that there are boundaries. One lesson in Genesis is that history often repeats itself. Could science get to the point where our attempts to learn could get cut off again? By turning off all the electricity, God could throw us back to the Stone Age overnight. KENNETH BERRY Riverview, New Brunswick Via E-mail...
...first book of the Old Testament and of Jewish Scripture falls into two parts: primeval history (chapters 1-11); and patriarchal tales (12-50). The first part covers the Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the Flood and the Tower of Babel and establishes the basic premise of a God who acts in the history of his most problematic creation. The last three-quarters of Genesis, by contrast, is the wild and woolly saga of one family more widely perceived as historical. Exhorting Abraham to leave his father's house and country, God offers him incalculable descendants and property...
...duplicate in most particulars the memorable cadences and phrasing of the King James. For some two centuries, readers of either of these Bibles could feel that the word they sought was the Word, that they had access to the linguistic unity enjoyed by humankind before the Tower of Babel, "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech...