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...sided stella, which, if I remember correctly, is a copy of the copy in the British Museum. It is called the Black Obelisque, and on it the Assyrian king Shalmanesar III recorded his conquest of most of the Near East, including Babylon. Nearby is a cast of an Assyrian bas-relief which shows kings impaling their captives on spears...
...neighboring alcove, there is an imitation of the Hammurabi code. The original, in the Louvre, is black with a bas-relief of Hammurabi, standing, receiving the law from a god. The Semitic Museum's imitation is white. It has a replica of the bas-relief, but the stella itself seemed to be blank. Later, in the light, I saw that the code had been meticulously cast on the copy. At least they had not classified that, I thought...
After climbing back up the stairs to the second floor, and passing a manure-colored bas-relief, also a copy, of some Assyrian king, you arrive at the Center Library on the Third floor. The library is small, and books may be borrowed only by Center members. The description of the library in the Center's reports advertised a section on development. I would check to see if they had a sense of humor, I decided. I looked for Walter Jackson Bate's The Stylistic Development of John Keats. It was not in the card catalogue...
...view bussing, for example, as a scheme to move their chil dren to worse public schools while rich children escape to pri vate schools. In typical response, a West Coast carpenter moonlights without reporting his side income. "Screw the Government," he says. "They just give it to some black bas tard anyway for doing nothing...
...years the Burgers have led a quiet life in Washington, normally limiting their entertaining to small dinner parties at their 140-year-old farmhouse in nearby Arlington. He drives a five-year-old Volkswagen. His avocations are painting and sculpture. He has done bas-reliefs for some of his friends, and tried-without success -to put some life into the dismal school of official portraiture that fills the corridors of his courthouse. Judge Burger is also something of a gourmet. He sometimes runs his wife out of the kitchen in order to experiment with an elaborate recipe a la Julia...