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...Passos in the '40s almost underwent extinction of reputation such as befell Britain's John Galsworthy or America's Joseph Hergesheimer - two popular near-contemporaries who, as far as today's public is concerned, might just as well have written in Sumerian cuneiform...
...Inept King. Grade school children in parts of New York's Westchester County play individual games against a computer. In one, called the "Sumerian game," a player-king is asked how he wants to use the natural resources of the ancient kingdom called Sumer. He must decide, for example, how many bushels of grain to store, how many to distribute to his people, how many to plant for the next crop. The computer informs him of the effects. It recently told one inept king: "Your population has decreased to zero. Call the teacher." Both in and out of class...
Samant paints the way he plays music: he tries to combine in the present moment all the root wisdom of past experience. "I believe that a great work of art is timeless," he says, and he learned his art by studying the paleolithic cave paintings at Lascaux, Sumerian tablets, and linear Egyptian murals. Prime examples are now on view at Manhattan's World House Galleries. To recapture timelessness in a modern idiom, Samant works spontaneously like an action painter, performing with his passionate pastel colors in such fast-drying media as spackle and plastic wood. Then he watches...
...patted from tail to head because his fur grows that way. Heavy drinkers might find use for a puli, a shaggy sheepherder famed for its ability to guide strays back into the fold. And antique collectors will want the world's oldest dog, the saluki, which appears in Sumerian carvings as early as 6000 B.C. The Arabs call him "el Hor" (the noble one), and use him to hunt gazelles. Saluki owners also have a readymade subject of conversation with Socialite Ceezee Guest...
Krister Shendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, explained that the former title too heavily emphasized the philosophical aspect, and did not do justice to those scholars concentrating in Akkadian, Sumerian, and Religion and Society...