Word: babylonian
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...Brooklyn Museum stands a splendid statuette of almost solid copper, silently questioning knowledgeable visitors. The questions: "Do I represent a hero, a king, a priest, a demon, a god, or some ancient's idea of a joke? Was I molded and cast by a Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrian, Hyksos, Elamite, or by some barbaric genius of the Caucasus? Was my native city Eridu, perhaps, or Susa. Persepolis, Nineveh, Larsa, Lagash, Umma, Ur, Alalakh, or Hattusas? Am I 5,000 years old, or closer to a mere...
...space, enough to cover 152 football fields. In the rush (one building, 99 Park Avenue, took just 6½ days for the aluminum outside walls), architecture has taken a back seat. To conform to zoning restrictions, most of the buildings rise in a series of recessed blocks, like Babylonian ziggurats and great wedding cakes. A few, like the U.N.'s stone and glass sandwich and Lever House's glass slab, have broken the pattern. But in midtown Manhattan, the wedding cake leads the field...
...lndy: Istar (Westminster Symphony of London conducted by Anatole Fistoulari; M-G-M). A symphonic striptease, this romantic score tells the story of a Babylonian maiden's visit to the house of death. As she passes each of its! successive gates, she is stripped of a piece of clothing until she stands naked at the" seventh. Suitably enough, the musical variations are stated in reverse, starting with the most complicated; at the end, the naked theme is heard for the first time...
...museums of America have reached a point where we must make a choice of becoming either temples of learning and understanding ... or of remaining merely hanging gardens for the perpetuation of the Babylonian pleasures of estheticism and the secret sins of private archeology...
Starting with the Babylonian Talmud (c. 450) right down to Booth Tarkington (Princeton '08) "Clothes make the man" has been a popular saying on the importance of what one wears. "We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the difference" contended Thomas Fuller...