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EQUALLY mindful of his aged bones and exalted station, Berosus the High Priest slowly mounted the stone ramp that spiraled seven times around the great ziggurat and brought him into the presence of the Beings. They blazed and glittered in the night sky above the sleeping city of Babylon far below?imperceptibly wheeling in the ancient celestial dance that contained the secrets of the future of the kingdom. The signs, he saw, were good. Zibbati was well advanced in the Way of Enlil, supported by glowing Ishtar, which favored success in arms. On the morrow, he would tell the king...
Berosus would have understood perfectly what Sheila was up to. Indeed, Sheila's astrological calculations would be one of the few things he would find familiar in the modern world after 50 centuries. It is one of the stranger facts about the contemporary U.S. that Babylon's mystic conceptions of the universe are being taken up seriously and semiseriously by the most scientifically sophisticated generation of young adults in history. Even the more bc.cult arts of palmistry, numerology, fortunetelling and witchcraft?traditionally the twilight zone of the undereducated and overanxious?are catching on with youngsters. Bookshops that cater...
...LIKELY PLACE, by Paula Fox (Macmillan; $2.95). Lewis, at nine, is so overwhelmed by parental advice that he thinks of running away. But then he meets Mr. Madruga, a retired Spanish shoemaker, and together they solve their problems. Also recommended: Paula Fox's How Many Miles to Babylon?, the story of a Negro boy in Brooklyn who is held captive by young dog thieves...
Useful Guide. Toynbee has a very human eye for detail-but with a scholarly difference. Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, pleases him because it has escaped the "geometer"-the builder who lays out cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present...
...MBTA and jerk and chug through Boston's murky underground and the swamps of Revere Beach. After 35 minutes and two changes you emerge at Wonderland Park, a latterday Babylon that is one of about 50 greyhound race tracks in the country...