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...George G. Cameron, an Elamitist (authority on the ancient state of Elam), would soon be busy with his research. There, some 2,500 years ago, King Darius of Persia had his portrait carved along with ten of his liquidated enemies. Long inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian tell how Darius attributed his success up to this point (later his armies were soundly whipped by the Greeks at Marathon) to the favor of his god, Ahura Mazda, and to the fact that he was "neither a liar nor an evildoer, neither I nor any of my family...
Agabus-Graves's account of Jesus' identity is not half so strange as his interpretation of Jesus' role. His royalty, as scion of both the House of David and the Herodian line, carried with it the mythical attributes of a "sacred king"-of Tammuz, the Babylonian Adonis, who annually died and rose again, whose festival occurred at the same time of year as the Jewish Passover. Jesus (says Agabus-Graves) was endowed with supernatural powers of mind and will, and he did in fact conquer death. But, far from ascending into Heaven after the Resurrection, Jesus...
...Holy City's sun-baked walls and domes had dominated the ages. Doomed to repeated conquest, it had heard the clatter of Egyptian cavalry, the rattle of Persian scythe-wheeled chariots, had known Assyrian and Babylonian, the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion, Seleucid and Seljuk, Crusader, Saracen and Ottoman Turk. One conqueror supplanted the other, or declined to impotent passivity. But Jerusalem still remained, permanent in the perspective of history, as the city sometimes appears in a sudden lifting of the haze, crowning Zion...
Vincent d'lndy: Istar, Symphonic Variations (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 3 sides). A strip tease on records. The theme of the score comes only after seven variations have been played, to indicate that the Babylonian maid, Istar, has just thrown off her final veil. Performance: lush...
...Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons spread his neo-Babylonian banquet for the Security Councilmen at the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel, Iran seemed far away indeed. Marshaled (vainly) to convince the U.N. that they should not move out of the hospitable Bronx were steaks, caviar, champagne and a three-piece band to play Meadowland for Delegate Gromyko. But no sooner had the last mellow tones subsided than the jarring discords of the supposedly settled Iran issue again filled...