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...know that whatever Harvard doeth, it shall be forever...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: The Vanitas of Veritas | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...Warner Bros., the left hand apparently careth not what the right hand doeth. The studio is distributing Monty Python's Life of Brian, the British comedy troupe's send-up of the Gospels that is widely condemned as blasphemous by Christians and Jews alike. But almost simultaneously, it is releasing another movie that will please the pious. This film, titled simply Jesus, is calculated to appeal to the most ardent biblical purists: all the action and virtually all the words spoken by the actors and off-screen Narrator Alexander Scourby are taken straight from the Gospel of Luke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Film for Bible Purists | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Jordan's freewheeling paraphrase tries to catch the colloquial, contemporary quality of the Pauline letters. As translated in the King James version, Romans 2:9 vows "tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile." In Jordan's phrasing, the threat comes out: "Hellfire and brimstone upon every son of a gun who works for the wrong, whether he's a 'superior' white or a Negro." Romans 1:25 excoriates those "who changed the truth of God into a lie"; this becomes, in Jordanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Word: Pop Preaching | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...Party member of Ramsay MacDonald's 1931 coalition Cabinet. His brother Dwight was a Liberal M.P., and another brother, Michael, is the enfant terrible of Labor's left wing. "We liked to work to the rule, 'Let not the left Foot know what the right Foot doeth,' " cracks Hugh. Yet the family always preserved a merry unity through a running game of intellectual oneupmanship. One famous parry came in 1958, when Sir Hugh was trying desperately to halt the internecine war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Suddenly, he received a cryptic cable from his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Right Foot Forward | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

Beating by Scripture. The "fatal poison of irresponsible power" made brutes of most slaveholders, writes Douglass. Even in the border state of Maryland, where Douglass lived, slaves were regularly flogged by masters who were fond of paraphrasing Scripture. "He that knoweth his master's will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." Douglass knew of a white overseer who shot down a slave for refusing to obey. He tells of a 15-year-old girl who was beaten to death for letting a white baby cry. The slaves were helpless, since their testimony was not accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black Abolitionist | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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