Word: babylonic
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...opposed to organizing to fight Babylon, you people sit around and babble," Jackson said. "You sit around and say 'the man, the man, the man' and you do not realize...
...book is sort of an instant history of the Jews, from Abraham to Moshe Dayan. It is pretty damned skylarky for a people that wept beside the waters of Babylon and have undergone agonies of tribulation throughout their existence. The music is homogenized rock international, and the dances are United Nations hora. The girls are smashingly good-looking, probably the most fetching chorus line we are likely to see all season. If any one of them opts to stay in the U.S., she can make some deserving swain a very happy...
...again a nation equal to all the others -and much finer than many." Cyrus the Great provided a handy peg. Iran ("home of the Aryans") was settled by an Aryan tribe from what is now southern Russia. Cyrus, a leader of the Achaemenian dynasty of the tribe, accepted Babylon's surrender in 539 B.C., and by the next year had founded an empire that at its height stretched from present-day India to the Aegean, and from the Danube to the Nile...
...Personal History, one of the six books he has written in four years, Ben-Gurion shows a deep sense of the continuity of Jewish history. Describing the 1948 war of independence, he writes: "We have more than once met Egypt and Assyria, Babylon and Aram, Canaan and Amalek, but always singly; never in 3,500 years was the whole Middle East united against us." When Ben-Gurion first came to Israel from Poland in 1906 under his original name, David Gryn (his Hebrew name means "son of a lion cub"), he found a land "both loved and desolate"-and underpopulated...
...Bernadette, 23, was too pregnant (by a man she has refused to name) to march, so she rode in a loudspeaker car. Her political stock has clearly been lifted by the crisis and by her return to the barricades. As one priest joked, "If she were the hoor of Babylon, we'd elect...