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...koto is Japan's most popular traditional instrument. Brought to Japan from China in the 9th century, it is fashioned out of blond paulownia wood. It has 13 strings stretched over sliding ivory bridges that must constantly be shifted while playing in order to retune and change keys...
...placid orthodoxy of Denmark's Lutheranism. Time and again, also, Christianity has undergone revolutionary second Pentecosts, and survived by adopting radical new forms of life. The Christian cell of believers, worshiping in the catacombs, brought the church through centuries of Roman persecutions. In the Dark Ages of the 9th century, the fortress monasteries of the Benedictines saved the faith of Europe-and the culture of its Greco-Roman past-from the triumph of marauding barbarians...
...fourth and fifth Crimson scorers were Roger Smith (9th), who led the field for the first half-mile, and Jon Chaffee (10th). Jim Smith and Roy Cobb finished 13th and 14th for Harvard...
Sacred Texts. For many people, any modern translation seems like an impiety. Orthodox Jews regard as sacred the Masoretic text of the Old Testament, which was established by rabbinical scholars between the 6th and 9th centuries after Christ. Many conservative Protestants feel the same way about the majestic prose of the King James Version-which also took many years to win acceptance among tradition-minded 17th century Christians...
...Congressional is the longest and toughest course any Open has ever been played on-7,053 yds., with greens so irregular that one golfer accused Architect Robert Trent Jones of burying dinosaurs under the undulating turf. The 9th hole is all of 599 yds. long, and its green is separated from the fairway by a deep, grass-choked ravine. "That," said one pro, "is where elephants go to die." In short, the Congressional is a brutal course, even for Palmer, Nicklaus, or Tony Lema, who had just won two tournaments in a row. But when Palmer fired the only...