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...that they could cooperate or not with the young biographer as they pleased. Many hundreds did, and Biographer Bair had six years of work cut out for her. They were worth it. Samuel Beckett could have come swaddled in doctoral dissertationese, a hedging, clotted tongue as dead as ancient Babylonian. Instead, the book is a model of judicious, lively scholarship, an impressive translation of an enigma into...
...Francisco boasts a lot of awesome architecture: the towering headquarters of Transamerica Corp., which looks like an elongated pyramid; the severe, deep-carnelian granite Bank of America building; the hollowed-out Embarcadero Hyatt Regency, its interior a modern evocation of a Babylonian hanging garden. Bay City boosters will soon have another unusual building to talk about. Construction has just begun on the 19-story Northern California headquarters of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co., which Architect William Pereira reckons is the first high-rise office structure with openable windows to be built in the U.S. since World...
Critics of Carter's human rights stance glibly trace his "basic principles and values" back to a Southern Baptist Sunday school outlook. Actually, such moral basics are common to all men of all times; they are found not only in the Bible but in Hindu, Egyptian, Chinese, Norse, Babylonian and Greek texts...
What did these visitors look like? In spired by ancient Assyrian, Babylonian and Egyptian illustrations of fishtailed gods, Temple speculates that Siriusians were probably amphibious-"a kind of cross between a man and a dolphin...
JEREMIADS SUCH AS these Newman makes against the state-of-the-union's language are as old as the day Babylonian scholars compiled a text on "Style and Form of Hieroglyphics." Any nabob with alert ears and open eyes can natter negativism about decadence in American, verbal or otherwise. More important than the fact of degeneracy are the reasons behind it. Newman does make a stab at why the American language has become so cheapened. While Watergate was making its contribution, he writes, "a different process has been under way in another sector, where respect for rules has been breaking...