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...this thesis. In Babel's Tower (Columbia University Press; $1), he had written: "We in the art museums of America have reached a point where we must make a choice of becoming either temples of learning . . . or of remaining merely hanging gardens for the perpetuation of the Babylonian pleasures of aestheticism and the secret sins of private archaeology...
...Pope slashed the ratio of Italian members in the College of Cardinals from 63% to 40%. For the first time since the Papacy's 14th-Century "Babylonian captivity" in France, Italians were in the minority. For the first time, every continent had a cardinal. The next Pope might well be non-Italian-which has not happened since the 1522 conclave chose short-reigned Hadrian VI of Utrecht...
Biblical criticism is indeed in for overhauling if Dr. Olmstead's thesis is accepted. He has worked out a schedule of exact dates for all Christ's ministry, based on the recent discovery of astronomical tablets for the Babylonian calendar (which the Jews used after their return from their Babylonian captivity). Most authorities say Jesus was 33 when He died; Dr. Olmstead thinks He was nearly 50. He cuts down the accepted period between Baptism and Crucifixion from nearly four years to less than two, fixing the former date late in 28 A.D. and the latter on April...
...loose and form a third party, or to try to capture one of the two major parties. They succeeded in doing the latter in 1936, but in the last two years the roles of master and servant have been reversed. Labor and liberals have entered into a Babylonian captivity from which they must escape; not up the blind alley to which John L. Lewis has pointed, but along a bolder course...
When Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king, was feeling low, he crawled on his hands & knees and ate grass. But Nebuchadnezzar also drove the Egyptians out of Asia, conquered Syria, destroyed Jerusalem. Last week Chemists George O. Kohler, W. R. Graham and C. F. Schnabel of Kansas City, Mo. put two & two together. In grass, they said, there is power...