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...prospect of soaring marble temples, each as immaculate as a white plaster model. The reality of the marketplace was far different. Most of its buildings were built of brick, wood and dingy stone until almost the beginning of the Christian era. The city itself, with a population that surpassed present-day Rome's 1,750,700, squeezed into an even smaller circumference, was a terrifying tangle of pedestrians, soldiers, horses, lurching sedan chairs and carts...
ASSUR-NASIR-PAL II was the terror of the civilized world. When he completed his palace in 879 B.C. in present-day Nimrud, northern Iraq, "the Great King, the Mighty King, King of the Universe, King of Assyria" celebrated with a palace-warming that included a ten-day banquet for the royal city's entire population-more than 69,000-as well as for visiting VIPs. Assur-nasir-pal II had populated his city with conquered peoples, rebuilt it from ruins, crowned it with his palace and adorned the palace with the magnificence of the day. And in history...
Speaking before a combined meeting of the Law School and the N.E. Intercollegiate Democratic Clubs in Harkness Commons, Jackson stressed that personalities have superseded issues as determinant factors in present-day elections...
...lecture Conant expressed doubt that the Communist educational system could offer solutions to the "complex problems of an industrial society." He stated that "one must wonder" at the idea that Communism's "exclusive attention to the dogmatic type of deductive thinking" could provide answers to present-day human problems...
...obvious to anyone who can think straight that U.S. policy, at least since President Eisenhower took office, has been based on farsighted, ethical principles. We have high hopes that our new government will show itself to be fully awake to the present-day facts of international life and will join the U.S. in its efforts to build confidence in the integrity of the Western nations. Along this road lies our only hope of combatting Communism...