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Your comparison of "wedding-cake modern" skyscrapers to the Babylonian ziggurat [TIME, Jan. 23] is most apt. For the ziggurat was none other than the Tower of Babel, a culture center for men intent on creating a world unified without God. Babylon the Great marches on: "Alas, alas, that great city . . ." (Revelation...
...poems, notably "The Eve of St. Agnes" and "To Autumn." Other collections range from John Donne and George Herbert to E. A. Robinson and Thomas Wolfe. Philip Hofer's Graphic Arts Collection is another prize feature of the Library--a summary of the best in book design from Babylonian cuneiform tablets to the latest printing innovations...
...Pittsburgh, far from the pennant hubbub, baseball fans were experiencing another kind of emotional turmoil. They had nothing but scorn for the impotent Pirates (who were 28 games out of first place), but they kept paying their way into Forbes Field to gaze, with the dewy-eyed reverence of Babylonian idol worshipers, upon big, amiable, good-looking Ralph McPherram Kiner. There was no doubt in any Pittsburgher's mind that easy-going Ralph was the biggest man in big-league baseball...
...historians of Babylon, N.Y. got the Board on Geographic Names to reverse itself, make the name of their creek Sumpwams, instead of Sumpwams. Expressing gratification, J. H. McAllister of the Babylon Leader explained: "It's an old Indian name-somewhere between a grunt and something else." The ordinary Babylonian, however, went on calling it East Creek...
These inscriptions were the "Rosetta Stone of Western Asia" which enabled scholars to decipher Babylonian and the other cuneiform languages of ancient Mesopotamia. About 100 years ago, philologists dangled from the cliff to copy part of the inscriptions; they tried it again in 1904. But much was missed or garbled, and the inscriptions are too inaccessible to be photographed effectively. The Cameron party will make accurate copies by pressing a rubber compound against the carvings. Orientalists all over the world are eagerly awaiting the results...