Word: phoenicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hardy Turkish diggers hacked their way into a dense, bandit-ridden forest in southern Anatolia. There they discovered a Hittite royal palace with lines of two-headed stone bulls. Among the bulls the diggers found the long-sought key: 30 stones with parallel inscriptions in Hittite hieroglyphics and early Phoenician, a translatable Semitic language. The first words the ancient language spoke to modern scholars (self-praise by King Asitawandas, servant of Baal) were not particularly interesting, but the hieroglyphic code was broken. Scholars were sure that other inscriptions, now readable, would tell them the story of the Sons of Heth...
Most such visitors caught on in a few days and trotted along home like good little boys. One who didn't is the hero-or victim-of this novel, mild, baldish Dr. John Jones, Professor of the Assyrio-Bdbylonic, Chaldean, Phoenician, Etruscan and Turkish languages at St. Jude's Theological Seminary...
Under their previous owners, the Phoenician twins had tried to work both sides of the street in heavily Democratic Arizona, although they obviously preferred the Republican side. Kansas-born Gene Pulliam likes that side, too; in Indianapolis he has been an active GOPromoter. As secretary-treasurer of his new Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., he listed "N. G. Mason," who is Mrs. Naomi Mason Pulliam. "Nina" Pulliam was his secretary for 15 years, has been his wife for five, once ran his Indianapolis radio station, WIRE...
There was a glamor about Tripoli. It was ancient Oea under Phoenician traders 1,000 years before Christ was born. It was a Roman colony after the fall of Carthage. It was the seat of Barbary coast pirates who waged a losing war against the U.S. Navy in the early 1800s. Since 1912, when the Italians wrested it from Turkish rule, it had bolstered the Italian ego. Since 1933, when Mussolini began exploiting its riches, it had inflated Italian pride. Losing it was a shock...
...naturalism. In Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear; the book is a shimmering death-dance of chameleon-like symbols; an attempt at nothing less than a complete serio-comic history of human consciousness-in Levin's neat phrase, a "doomsday book," culminating in a Phoenician paradox of dissolution and resurrection...