Word: babeling
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Radical Villages. This ingathering process has brought Israel its worst headaches and heartaches, but at last ten-year-old Israel thinks it has found a few answers. Faced with a babel of tongues, and infinite degrees of sophistication between skilled Rumanian surgeons and ignorant Yemeni shepherds, Israeli officials were in trouble no matter what they did. If they put all Poles in one village and all Moroccan Jews in another, the newcomers failed either to learn Hebrew or to become part of the Israeli pattern; when they were mixed together in one village, there was perpetual conflict...
...Dove for Nannar. Author Hill suggests that Abraham was a boy in the Sumerian city of Ur, a descendant of a Semitic people who inhabited the land before the Sumerians came. Thus he would have learned the story of the Flood, as well as that of the Tower of Babel-which sounds like a description of one of the stepped pyramids called ziggurats atop which the Sumerians built temples...
...herself, dangerous pedestal. We have come magnanimously to admit the possibility of others being almost as good as ourselves, or even just as good, but none better, at least scientifically and materially. From that pedestal the country now sees another structure rising in the distance, and, in a babel of hope and fear, rushes to build her own even higher...
Someone should tell Chief Justice Warren that man No. 3 ("Sir, I am building a temple") must follow the designer's blue prints exactly, or the temple will turn into a Tower of Babel...
...American Republic stretches out to an immense 9 by 13 feet. It was painted 100 years after the birth of the nation by a Massachusetts primitive named Erastus Salisbury Field "to get up a brief history of our country in a monumental form." The monumental form seems to combine Babel and Troy with intimations of modern Manhattan-its skyscraping towers connected at the top by railroad bridges. The history, told in statues and bas-reliefs, ranges from the rescue of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas to the imminent assassination of Lincoln by Booth as Washington anachronistically holds up his hand...