Word: nineveh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHEN Hammond turns to up-beat territory that his stiff demeanor undercuts his enthusiasm. His "Johnny One Note" lacks flair, even though he does well with all the tricky Lorenz Hart lyrics. When he tries a peppy "Not Since Nineveh" (a Kismet item that should be cut anyway), it falls sadly flat...
...that Oxford Archaeologist Max Mallowan remembers the Iraq Museum as being back in 1925. But the surge of Arab nationalism that made Iraq independent after World War I carried with it pride in a past that goes back 90 centuries, and included such mighty capitals as Babylon, Nineveh and Ur. In 1936 laws were passed to safeguard Iraq's antiquities, which for over a century had been filtering out to the world's great museums. And to insure that relics unearthed in the future would be properly housed and displayed, ambitious plans for a museum were drawn...
...that flourished from the 10th to the 13th centuries after Christ. In between are writings older than the Bible,* the world's oldest statuary, and 25-ton winged bulls with plaited beards and human heads that were once used to ward off evil from palaces and temples near Nineveh...
...sinfulness of ancient Babylon, together with the military prowess of Ur and Nineveh have been renowned since Biblical times. But displays from excavations conducted in the 1950s now reveal much about the little-known Parthians (one of the few ancient people who wore pants), who flourished during the 2nd and 3rd centuries after Christ, withstanding repeated attempts at conquest by Roman legions...
...Nineveh saw nothing like it, Imperial Rome would have been abashed, and Solomon, in all his glory, could not have afforded it. It is America's great Christmas festival...