Word: babylons
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...decades ago Hollywood was Babylon cum Samarkand cum Coney Island. The mind swayed like a prop palm before a wind machine; reason lay limp on the cutting-room floor. Pola Negri walked her leashed leopard cub. through the streets; Bessie Love drove a lavender-colored limousine ; Marion Davies* brought a marble bridge from Italy to span her 80-ft., saltwater swimming pool; and Dolores Del Rio let it be known that she drank only from a golden chalice. Even discounting the pressagents' fevered imaginations, it was a wondrously gaudy existence...
That previous year, 1946, several members of the HDC were forced to resign from that organization for having participated in the initial VTW play, "I Was a King in Babylon...
...reserved for the Temple. Since the last Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. in the siege of Jerusalem, Jews have recognized no Temple in Judaism (though Conservative and Reform Jews call their synagogues temples). The synagogues, originated as study and worship centers during the exile in Babylon, have kept the faith alive...
...recreate in its own image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with its own morality. Now & then, with a homely detail, it contrives an awesome effect; or with an incongruous touch reveals an unexpected meaning. Everything is most unmystically concrete: Heaven is a Southern fish fry, Babylon is a honkytonk...
...hour he left and strolled toward Montmartre, up the Rue Pigalle into the Place Blanche . . . He passed a lighted door from which issued music, and stopped with the sense of familiarity; it was Bricktop's, where he had parted with so many hours and so much money . . . -Babylon Revisited