Word: babeling
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...confidence with which Cooke has worked out this canvas and the triptych Tower of Babel, which is undoubtedly the show's tour de force, contrasts markedly with a certain indecisive quality which harms some of his earlier pictures. This weakness is most evident in an apparent overworking of certain parts of some other portraits--especially in the region of the eyes. The result is an effect of dull lifelessness, which, although effective in the Portrait of Helene Swindells, is generally disturbing...
...Plus 7. The field marshal, his chest arrayed in a rainbow of 38 ribbons, employs certain special equipment to aid his performance: cough drops for generals so bold as to cough while Montgomery is talking, an officer's whistle to bring order out of the babel of English, French, Italian and Turkish, and a brass schoolbell to squelch extra-loud arguments. The men before him are top SHAPE officers, brought together for one of Monty's periodic "Command Post Exercises" for skull practice in the huge, hypothetical war which SHAPE wages in the mind, in the hope that...
Fifteen pretty girls brought their carefully catalogued charms and mountains of luggage to London last week and, in a polyglot babel of perfumed chatter, settled into a once-quiet, family-type hotel just off the Strand. One of them was destined to become Miss World...
Among science's most sacred relics are the standard "meter bars" of platinum-iridium that lie in an underground shrine at Sèvres, near Paris. Replacing a babel of medieval units, they originated in the spurt of innovation that followed the French Revolution. The newfangled meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance between the earth's equator and the North Pole, but difficulties of measurement made the exact length hard to determine. So the meter that was finally accepted (39.37 in. in length) was almost as arbitrary a unit as the ells, feet...
...possesses its own ends, from which it can never diverge." Although the statement also deplored stereotyped religious art, Vatican spokesmen admitted that it was aimed principally at modern artists who find church decoration a new and challenging technical medium. Wrote Archbishop Celso Costantini: "We are at present in a Babel of art ... The clamor caused by Matisse decorating the chapel of Vence has not yet died down . . . Chagall would like to paint a Catholic chapel . . . and Picasso has been toying with the idea of decorating a Communist chapel-... It is high time to unmask the pretenses of this false...