Word: sumerians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week to the TIME Books section in the hope that their works will be reviewed. As Christmas approaches, the incoming stream becomes a torrent in anticipation of our annual section on gift books, which appears in this issue. The new volumes-on subjects ranging from Peruvian highways to Sumerian icons, from precious plants to psychic phenomena-are delivered to the office of Books Editor Stefan Kanfer. "It's like getting a lot of Christmas cards," he says. "You are suddenly reminded not only of people, but also of subjects that you haven't been in touch with...
...newly launched vehicle for Heyerdahl's latest voyage is the Tigris, an 18-meter-long (59 ft.) craft constructed from 30 metric tons (33 tons) of reeds gathered from the swamps of southern Iraq; its design is based on drawings found on ancient Sumerian clay tablets. Iraqi workmen first tied the reeds together into two long, tapering rolls. Then the rolls were joined to form the craft's hull. Though on earlier voyages Heyerdahl and his crew drifted across oceans at the whim of winds and currents, the Tigris will be more versatile. It has been fitted with...
...ancient European civilizations. It should also be noted that Egyptian preceded every European language, including Greek, in written form and holds greater importance for our understanding of the whole ancient world before the first millenium B.C. than any other known language with the exception of Akkadian and Sumerian. It is indeed incomprehensible that Harvard does not have a professor of Egyptian language and literature. It is equally puzzling that a serious study of Ge'ez literature is disregarded in this university; literally hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts of hundreds of separate religious, historical, and other literary works found...
Last week, with the help of Musicologist Richard L. Crocker, who sang and played the song, and Physics Professor Robert R. Brown who built a replica of an eleven-string Sumerian lyre on which Crocker accompanied himself, Kilmer's discovery was unveiled at the university's Wheeler Auditorium. It was a short monophonous melody with a delicate Oriental redolence, much like a lullaby or love song. "The song appears to tell of love among the divinities, but we have such a limited vocabulary in Hur-rian, so far about the only words we know are father, love...
...ingenuity as well as a few "Ahs" for cleverness and learning. A few people would marvel (as they will anyway, and justly) at the great skill he shows in blending resonances from such things as the Divine Comedy, the Revelations of St. John and the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh with a story whose surfaces occasionally resemble All in the Family. Happily Gardner is on record as believing that a novelist should tolerate, even affirm the banal and the ordinary. "When Dickens wept over Little Nell," he says, "it was not because he was a subtle metaphysician. He mistook...