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Died. Albrecht Goetze, 74, dean of Babylonian scholars; of a heart attack; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Branded "politically unreliable" by the Nazis, Goetze fled to the U.S. in 1934 and joined the faculty at Yale, where he served as Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature for three decades. One of his biggest contributions to the understanding of the ancients started by chance in 1948: he stumbled across some neglected tablets in the Iraq Museum. Eventually he identified them as one of the world's oldest known body of laws-the Akkadian Code of Eshnunna. Goetze translated the code, which...
...help explain the causes of inflation and examine the question of whether full employment and stable prices can exist side by side. Meanwhile, Kathleen Cooil and Isabelle Kayaloff conducted their own interviews and spent hours in the library stacks uncovering, among other things, the fascinating tidbit that the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (circa 2000 B.C.) contained the world's first known system of price control...
...exhibit tries to examine the main representation of American commercial architecture, the skyscraper. New York's monsters, the illuminated posters tell us, are the grandchildren of the Babylonian ziggurats, medieval siege towers, Notre Dame, and Christopher Wren's churches...
Cold Showers. Max works for Now, a new weekly magazine. Even though he knows that he knows better, he tends to think of Now as a Babylonian garden where critical purity is corrupted. He suspects that his employers pay him more for his jokes than his judgments. To ease his qualms, he holds on to a movie-reviewing job at Rearview, one of those little magazines where a pittance of salary permits a critic to take bracing cold showers of integrity. Sheed has been a triple-threat critic himself, in theater (for Commonweal), in films (for Esquire), and in books...
...Judaism and Christianity. Genesis 1: 26 is explicit on the point that God gave man "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth." The ecological truth is quite different. The great early civilizations ?Babylonian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Chinese, Indian and perhaps Mayan?over-exploited the basic resource of land. In the end, says LaMont Cole, "they just farmed themselves out of business...