Word: ellison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yerby shuns both literary parties and Negro causes. He has been accused by some writers in the Negro press of racial disloyalty. But others, such as Novelist Ralph (The Invisible Man) Ellison, count it a score for Negroes that Yerby has won pre-eminence in a general field without regard to his race...
ROBERT THOMAS ELLISON...
...John William Ellison, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Winchester, Mass.. has been working for several years at the monstrous task of comparing varying manuscripts of the Greek New Testament. All of the 4,600 known versions are copies (or copies of copies of copies) and few are exactly alike. The copyists added words and omitted words. They changed spellings to fit their times and even changed meanings to conform with current notions. They made all sorts of mistakes. Mr. Ellison's project has been to try to find out what variations went in "families...
...Ellison went to Harvard's Computation Laboratory to find whether the Mark IV could straighten out St. Luke. The mathematicians who serve the great computer decided that the Biblical problem was "realistic" and told Mr. Ellison how; to translate parts of the Gospel into mathematical language that the Mark IV would understand...
...Ellison's task is far from finished, but already he can say that 16 medieval manuscripts from widely separated libraries belong to the same "family." They were copied from the same lost manuscript or from each other. Sometime next year, with the help of Mark IV, he hopes to have all versions of St. Luke's Gospel arranged in families...