Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your story on the Book of Common Prayer [Dec. 31], you credit modern scholars with "drab, bureaucratic writing" that renders the 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing." The "blame" lies not with T. S. Eliot et al. but with Bishop Miles Coverdale, who wrote the psalm that way in his "Great Bible" of 1539. When Archbishop Cranmer drafted the first Prayer Book in 1549, he used Coverdale's version of the Psalter; that version is still used in British and American Prayer Books. The King James Bible, of course, was not issued until...
Both incidents were bizarre but not unmanageable. Kansas Investigator, Al Dewey, apprehended the murderers and a grateful public had them hanged; Establishment representative Dwight MacDonald exposed the status drop-in and a literate public saw him ridiculed. As in all senseless episodes, only epilogues were wanting: for the Clutter family murder, an explanation of such infrequent violence; for the New Yorker's reputation, unequivocal proof of current literary merit. The publication of In Cold Blood, Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" on the Clutter affair, recently serialized in the New Yorker, triumphantly answers both needs...
Iranian Foreign Minister Ghollam Abbas Aram used the flare-up to resurrect another longstanding dispute between the two countries over the Shatt-al-Arab River, whose waters, which empty into the Persian Gulf, they are supposed to share. Aram accused Iraq of obstructing Iranian traffic, ignoring a 1937 agreement that was meant to regulate use of the river waters. Announced Aram: "The Iranian government regards the agreement as breached." With that, Iran ordered a mobilization of its forces along the border, alerted its elite Kermanshah Division, scrambled its U.S.-built supersonic F-5 jet fighters, vowing to "silence the voice...
...university rejected a pasture on the city's outskirts, fought for and got 106 downtown acres where once stood the Chicago slums that Al Capone's gang made infamous. Planned as a commuter college without dormitories, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle sits in the inner city-as does the Sorbonne in Paris. Within view of the Loop, the campus actually occupies the area designated by City Planner Daniel ("Make no little plan") Burnham in 1909 as the site for Chicago's future civic center. It is no coincidence that the campus is the first ever...
...experience in rehabilitation and just a vacation from city life. Warwick Superintendent A. Alfred Cohen says that his school is "an abnormally good environment" for the boys, but if they stay too long they will not be able to adjust to conditions at home. California's Nelles School al lows its boys to watch late-night movies on television, visit movie studios on field trips, attend monthly birthday parties. But some deliberately misbehave in order to stay longer and a few teachers think the place is too liberal. Declares one: "This is a lark for the boys...