Word: disturbance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taylor's version may disturb some ears, but its thought-for-thought rendition is not very likely to distress believers with any newfangled doctrinal notions. "The theological lodestar in this book," says Taylor in an anonymous preface to The Living Bible, "has been a rigid evangelical position." Mysteriously, halfway through the paraphrase, Taylor lost his voice, and still speaks only in a hoarse whisper. A psychiatrist who examined him suggested that the voice failure was Taylor's psychological self-punishment for tampering with what he believed to be the word...
Those who came late to Wilsonian autocracy are familiar only with the brooding mandarin, ominously reminiscent of Sydney Greenstreet contemplating the bust of the Maltese falcon. The persona was carefully cultivated by the master, whose "Do not disturb" sign was printed in his face and on his stationery ("Mr. Wilson regrets that it is impossible for him to .. write introductions ... make speeches ... judge literary contests ... give interviews ... autograph books for strangers ... donate copies of his books to libraries . . . contribute to symposiums of any kind ... supply personal information about himself"). Critic Alfred Kazin suggests that "anyone so extraordinarily gifted, and obsessed...
...offices contain many financial records, which students have agreed not to disturb...
...DISTURB by Muriel Spark. 121 pages. Viking...
...youthful revelations, Mrs. Lindbergh does little to disturb the privacy that she and her husband have always insisted upon. Thus there is only one mild note from Anne to Charles. In the last letter of the book, the author matter of factly tells Corliss Lament: "Apparently I am going to marry Charles Lindbergh. He has vision and a sense of humor and extraordinarily nice eyes'. And that is enough...