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...Palace Hotel, only on a smaller scale." She was quick to see that to Europeans it was completely unimportant that she had been snubbed in Manhattan. London and Paris expected lavish entertainment from Americans, not lineage. For two decades Louise Mackay supplied the entertainment. Her parties had a Babylonian magnificence, from "eighteen footmen on the stairs to the bowls of out-of-season violets in the blue salon." Her guests included the British royal family, the royalist and Bonapartist nobility of France. The Americans who had treated her so cavalierly in Manhattan had finally got their comeuppance. John Mackay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making the Riffle | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

...Hasidic term for leader, stemming from the Hebrew rabbi, meaning teacher. *An esoteric system of speculation on metaphysics which went in for much symbolical manipulation of words and names. The cabala originated in Palestine but came under strong Babylonian influence between 500 and 900 A.D. Its best-known work, the Zohar, compiled in the 13th century, had a profound influence on Hasidism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Lubavitchers | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...dams, channels and dikes gouged by German, French, British and American contractors will catch next spring's floodwaters for the first time and lead them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream, other contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. In upper Iraq, a French firm is building a $28 million concrete dam at Dokan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The New Garden of Eden | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...racked up sales of more than 1,000,000 by gilding such subjects as the lives of Christ (The Nazarene), St. Paul (The Apostle), Mary and Moses. This time Asch has raided the Bible for the story of the second Isaiah, who roused the Jews out of their Babylonian captivity.* The book's religious message is swaddled in what Hollywood calls "production values," e.g., a 3-D tour of Nebuchadnezzar's Palace of the Hanging Gardens in Babylon, the orgiastic rites of a harlot votary of the goddess Ishtar ("Her breasts were encased in golden bowls"), Belshazzar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...Practically nothing is known about him. The first 39 chapters of the book of Isaiah are largely attributed to "the first Isaiah," who died long before the Babylonian captivity (which began in 597 B.C.). Most Biblical scholars consider the next 15 chapters of the book of Isaiah the work of a great unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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