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...wrath, wrote of Syria: "Plentiful was its honey, abundant its oil and all fruit are on its trees." But Syria's early inhabitants-predominantly Semites-got little chance to enjoy the oil and honey. Around 2000 B.C. they were conquered by Hammurabi, the great lawgiver of Babylon; later their homeland was a perennial battleground for the Hittites and the Egyptians. Then Sennacherib the Assyrian "came down like the wolf on the fold," to be followed over the centuries by Nebuchadnezzar, the Persians, Alexander the Great and, finally, in 64 B.C., Pompey...
Nuri and Nasser now contend for Arab leadership, but the rivalry between the peoples of the Euphrates and the Nile valleys is actually as old as civilization, which first dawned in their valleys. Then, competing empires reached out from Babylon and Thebes into the land between-the land of the Bible-and as the tides of conquest and reconquest ebbed and flowed, the children of Israel and other would-be neutrals were swept off now to Egyptian bondage, now to Babylonian captivity. Today, though faces in the modern Iraqi and Egyptian crowds often show startling similarity to the classic profiles...
Female Performance: Louise Bell, as Gloria in Alonso's "Death of Don Juan"; Phyllis Ferguson, as the sister-in-law in Kaufman's "Babylon Revisited"; Lee Jeffries, as Sally in "Six Strings...
...anguish and anger of the time that Jonah ran for more than a thousand performances on a professional West Berlin stage and on the road. Slight in size, it nevertheless bites off a big chunk of cosmos, compressing into an hour-long performance a range that includes Babylon, Nineveh, Nazi Germany and Judgment Day. With much Pirandello-style shifting of role and perspective, the play is a theodicy-a justification of the ways of God in the face of evil...
ANDREE MAITLAND Babylon...