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...Dame Rose Macaulay. 286 pages. Thames & Hudson distributed by International Book Society, a division of Time Inc. $17.50. On none of her 30 books did the late Dame Rose Macaulay bestow more love and scholarship than on Pleasure of Ruins, her unique evocation of civilization's past. Troy, Nineveh, Tyre, Thebes, Babylon, Carthage, Persepolis, Byzantium-all the fallen cities rise again from the centuries in her memorial. In this volume, Constance Babington Smith, Dame Rose's cousin, and Canadian Artist-Photographer Roloff Beny have paid lovely tribute to those glorious ghosts. Beny's 172 photographs, twelve...
Last week, in special trains from Baghdad and in buses from the countryside, thousands of Kassem's supporters, members of the Communist-led "Peace Partisans" movement, converged on Mosul (pop. 200,000), near the ancient Biblical city of Nineveh. Seeing them, the local army commander, stocky, swarthy Colonel Abdel Wahab Shawaf, 40, member of a prominent Iraqi family (his brother is Kassem's Minister of Health) and himself an ardent Arab nationalist, began to fret. After last July's revolution Shawaf had proclaimed: "Naturally, Iraq will become part of the Arab Union." That was not Kassem...
...anguish and anger of the time that Jonah ran for more than a thousand performances on a professional West Berlin stage and on the road. Slight in size, it nevertheless bites off a big chunk of cosmos, compressing into an hour-long performance a range that includes Babylon, Nineveh, Nazi Germany and Judgment Day. With much Pirandello-style shifting of role and perspective, the play is a theodicy-a justification of the ways of God in the face of evil...
...East, Author Lafcadio Hearn wrote in 1904: "Here, all is enchantment. You have entered bodily into Fairyland-into a world that is not and never can be your own. You have been transported out of your century into an era forgotten, back to something as ancient as Nineveh." In 1956 nearly 75,000 U.S. visitors, more than ever before, will journey to the Far East looking for some of the same enchantment. The main travel spots...
...hero, a king, a priest, a demon, a god, or some ancient's idea of a joke? Was I molded and cast by a Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrian, Hyksos, Elamite, or by some barbaric genius of the Caucasus? Was my native city Eridu, perhaps, or Susa. Persepolis, Nineveh, Larsa, Lagash, Umma, Ur, Alalakh, or Hattusas? Am I 5,000 years old, or closer to a mere...