Word: canonical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest surprise is the computer's built-in disk drive. Rather than rely on standard floppy disks, Next comes equipped with an erasable magneto-laser disk built by Canon and controlled by a proprietary chip. The 5 1/4-in. disk, which will be the first of its kind to come to market in the U.S., slips in and out of the computer like a floppy, but holds 256 megabytes -- more data than 300 IBM PC or Macintosh disks. As if to underscore the massive storage capacity this represents, Next's disk comes loaded with software programs, operating instructions and four...
Exactly how he created himself and his era remains something of a mystery, the topic of continuing debate. And this discussion is about to intensify nearly everywhere, thanks to the occasion provided by Eliot's centenary. For openers, a long awaited addition to the Eliot canon will be published next week on his 100th birthday: The Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1898-1922 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 736 pages; $29.95), the first of four volumes of Eliot's correspondence, edited by his second wife Valerie. Presses on both sides of the Atlantic are churning out new issues of Eliot's writing...
Asian companies have achieved a similar lock on the office-equipment market. No American company makes facsimile machines, a $914 million business in the U.S. Such Japanese companies as Canon and Sharp produce 94% of the small copiers sold in the U.S. as well...
...course, rather different in the 1st century A.D. Like other ancient authors, the Gospel writers did not set out to produce records that meet modern standards of precision. Furthermore, they were clearly saturated with faith in Christ and were not necessarily objective transmitters of his story. Says Anthony Harvey, canon of Westminster Abbey and a New Testament scholar: "The writer of a Gospel is not just an editor but a creative theological intelligence, telling the story in a particular way to make a particular point...
...respected voices in England calling for moderation, Canon Harvey, remembers a mentor remarking that in any historical investigation, "if you tear up the only evidence you've got, you can say anything you like." That is not a bad one-sentence summary of what has happened to higher biblical criticism. In fact, just about anything is said nowadays. Most churchgoers will prefer the assertion of Dean Robert Meye of California's Fuller Theological Seminary that "faith depends on a robust Jesus -- tangible, real, vital -- and a robust view that the Jesus available to us in the Gospels was the Jesus...