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This "oldest written literature of significant quantity ever uncovered" consists of epics, myths, hymns, proverbs. Before the Society, Kramer read a poem, "Inanna's Descent to the Nether World," oldest known version of the universally significant myth of a descent into Hades. This myth, hitherto thought to be Semitic in origin, was taken over by all succeeding civilizations from the Assyrian to the Christian. Still more important, Kramer hopes, will be his translation of Sumerian "forerunners of the ancient myths concerned with the dying god and his resurrection, a group ... of basic significance for a scientific approach...
...fast enough last week. The fall of Bengasi was brought about by swift execution of the familiar tactic of the giant pincer. While the main Australian force chased Italians along the coast, a mechanized force branched across the hump of Cyrenaica to form the pincer's nether jaw. This body, meeting little resistance other than a sandstorm which choked carburetors as well as throats, headed for a spot about 50 miles south of Bengasi-just below Soluch, the southern terminus of a short railway spur which runs down the coast from Bengasi. The British force straddled the highway...
...Psychologist Sigmund Freud, who had taken the human mind apart and discovered that a lot of its thinking was controlled by buried childhood memories. Surrealism was not yet fashionable. But writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, "expressionist" painters like Max Ernst and Vassily Kandinsky were already scratching their nether brains, hypnotizing themselves into trances, trying to get their inchoate feelings into print and paint...
...swing this mounting deficit, the Allies (including Belgium, The Nether lands, their possessions and Norway) had an estimated total in gold and foreign in vestments of $24,475,000,000. Upwards of half of their investment is now in belligerent areas, of doubtful liquidating value...
...Certain persons have been firmly convinced that Germany intended to invade The Nether lands. ... It was learned today that the con servative Army high command flatly refused to countenance any such action...