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Messrs. Morey and Paul have taken considerable liberties with Moses' brief account of the rise and fall of the tower of Babel. In the nine verses of the original (Gen,: xi, 1-9), the tower is a monument to hutzpa; in their musical play, Morey and Paul suggest that, in fact, it symbolized fraud and sham. And they and their small cast argue so wittily and so tunefully that I am inclined to take their word...
Studies in Slime. If anything justified the expedition, Author Herold believes, it was the ten volumes of text and 14 volumes of plates that comprise Description de I'Egypte. That monument of collective scholarship was assembled by the 167-man Commission on the Sciences and Arts that Napoleon brought with him to establish a cultural institute in Alexandria. The assembled scientists interspersed papers like "Observations on the Wing of the Ostrich'' and "Analysis of the Slime of the Nile" with studies on capillary attraction, the treatment of smallpox and bubonic plague, the formation of ammonia...
...last week, Winthrop said: "We're entitled to better government in Arkansas. I am working for that which I think is right for Arkansas, so that we will take our position with the ranks of states with dignity, not buffoonery." In a more private moment, he built a monument to understatement: "I have a sneaking suspicion that the Governor's bipartisan policy is coming...
...admitted that such courses would be a break with tradition, but stated that "Le Corbusier's building is a monument to the end of tradition." The Carpenter Center is the first building in the U.S. designed by the French architect...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, which supports only a skeletal globe because the Rockefellers feared that a solid sphere would darken the nearby window fronts; of cancer; in Easton, Md. Among his other massive works: sculptures ornamenting the Bok "Singing Tower" at Lake Wales, Fla., the U.S. battle monument at Saint-James Manche, France, and the 8½-ton statue of a muscle-bound grain sower that stands atop Nebraska's state capitol...