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Huff-Puff Parable. At Leopoldville, Dr. Mabie joined an assemblage of 200-odd delegates (American, British, Scandinavian, French, Belgian, Portuguese, Swiss and native) sweltering in a cluster of 22 tar-papered U.S. Army hospital buildings. In Babel-like confusion, conferees struggled with Christian heroism to meet a program of four daily sessions, crammed with as many as 19 papers at a single session...
Mountain Music. Outside and in a dozen nearby buildings, girls in slacks and boys in basque shirts scraped, fiddled, blew, banged and sang, and the noises elbowed each other like a musical Babel. Behind a boxed hemlock hedge a soprano and contralto sang a duet from Aida, beyond another hedge a section of cellos rehearsed the minuet from Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F Major. In the Music Shed on the greensward a Brazilian conductor, who spoke no English, sign-signaled a student orchestra through a too-briskly gaited Afternoon of a Faun. Koussevitzky observed: "Maybe fine conductor...
...Christian readers, Lewis' allegory adds up to an elaborate modern version of an old story which atomic man may well paste in his hat: The Tower of Babel...
...chief of U.N.'s language division, Mathieu heads 49 interpreters and translators in the U.S. and Europe. To help them, he has propounded four ground rules which might well serve as a simple syllabus of pentecostal understanding in a Tower-of-Babel...
...Hanging Gardens. Taylor had already elaborated on this thesis. In Babel's Tower (Columbia University Press; $1), he had written: "We in the art museums of America have reached a point where we must make a choice of becoming either temples of learning . . . or of remaining merely hanging gardens for the perpetuation of the Babylonian pleasures of aestheticism and the secret sins of private archaeology...