Word: babylonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen's promenade deck added up close to a quarter of a mile. To carry the passengers effortlessly from one to another of the twelve decks, which rise within the Queen's 50,000-ton metal hull and spill above it like the hanging gardens of Babylon, were 21 noiseless elevators. The murals of the public rooms, boarded up during the war, were unveiled again. Both public and staterooms were paneled in woods from every continent-from beech to rich mahogany, rare and exotic betula and petula, zebrano and avodire...
Most turbulent cities: Chicago, "as full of crooks as a saw with teeth"; Kansas City, Mo., "the best boogie-woogie town" in the land, "a kind of middle-western Babylon...
Next winter's production will be the first venture into Shakespeare for the yearling Workshop. Following their world premiere of Gerhardi's "I Was A King in Babylon" last fall, the VTW turned to the student body for the choice of their next play. A special poll indicated a preference for Shaw and "St. Joan" hit the Sanders boards...
...History offers each of its great challenges only once. After only one failure, or one refusal, the offer is withdrawn. Babylon, Athens, Thebes, Alexandria, Madrid, Vienna sink back, and do not rise again. ... It may be that the darkness of great tragedy will bring to a quick end the short, bright history of the United States -for there is enough truth in the dream of the New World to make the action tragic. The United States is called before the rehearsals are completed. Its strength and promise have not been matured by the wisdom of time and suffering...
Robert Neumann is one of those novelists who wish to leave the reader's complacency in tatters. At his best, he is brilliantly artful at it. His By the Waters of Babylon (TIME, July i, 1940) remains a classic work of fiction on the lives of European Jews. Children of Vienna, a much slighter story, is addressed, says Vienna-born Author Neumann, "to the men and women of the victorious countries"-especially to any who have failed to imagine life in the rubble "east of the Meridian of Despair...