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...cornerstone in place, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted aloud...
...panelists' intentions was to fashion a text that would read well aloud; as a result, many passages now resound with a fresh, rolling cadence even more understandable than the R.S.V. or Jerusalem Bible. In the King James Version of Daniel, for instance, the fate of the wicked was almost lost in Elizabethan prose: when King Darius pulls the unharmed Daniel from the lions' pit and throws in Daniel's accusers instead, the King James Version reports dryly: "The lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came...
...must learn this Vedic chant," begins one devotee to a mock disciple, "and recite it three times a day. But you cannot speak it aloud. You must say it softly to yourself...
...cinematic activities have begun to exhibit a staggering sameness, and the joking becomes more strained. Two lesbians perform for the camera, and Mrs. Avara wonders aloud "what's going through their minds." Whatever it is, there is little likelihood that other Marylanders will get a chance to guess. The dirty-movie ladies rejected the film...
...this point, New York's Jacob Javits intervened. He had remarked that he was "only a modest Senator, and an attorney," but not a medical expert. Now Attorney Javits reached for the evidence and read aloud that it had been published by Mead, Johnson back in 1965, and Nelson had failed to mention that it is no longer being distributed. The so-called "official Government document," he found, was in fact a private publication recording the views expressed by many investigators at a seminar financed by the U.S. Public Health Service...