Word: babeling
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...difficulties continued to dog him, and success as a novelist or poet evaded him. As the decade dissolved into a blur of smoke-filled soirees in overheated rooms, everpresent drinks and effervescent Follies girls, Wilson awoke one morning in 1929 to damn New York's literary life as "a babel of tongues, a round of disorderly parties, an exchange of malicious gossip and a blather of half-baked aspirations...
...transplanted American versed in the babel of the Chicago commodity exchange, a merchant prince in wheat. Black Thursday reduced him to a bankrupt husk...
Another Catholic feminist, Theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether of Howard University, suggests that a rise of feminine influence would liberate men as well as women by overthrowing man's technological empire-a "denatured Babel of concrete and steel." Then, says Ruether, men and women together could "learn to cultivate the garden . . . where the powers of rationalization come together with the harmonies of nature...
...these are minor points beside the great chain of events Barnouw has for the first time bound together for us. A Tower in Babel. The Golden Web, and The Image Empire should be read by anyone interested in the people's right to information in a democratic society. If the work is lengthy, detailed and at times unevenly, written, it never falls into the traps of dreary academicism. And if Barnouw is sometimes seduced by mere sentiment, the fervor he expresses and the anger he provokes are preferable to most intellectuals' disdain of broadcasting's industrial workings, programming sins...
...treat Klinger simply as a prophet of Surrealism-which Von Adlmann sensibly does not do-would be to miss the peculiar value of his art. The Surrealists were able to build their Tower of Babel on the work of Freud. But as far as is known, Klinger had never heard of the Viennese doctor. Born in Leipzig in 1857, and brought up in the correct milieu of provincial German society, he MIherited no work plans for dealing with his own unconscious images. He simply laid them out, naked or veiled with classical mythology. At the same time, Klinger was aware...