Word: expert
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...Thailand's Chiangmai province rushed the royal elephant expert. It's true! he reported back to Bangkok. After studying the pale toenails, the pink about the eyes and the white about the ears, it could be certified that for the second time in the 19-year reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 38, a white elephant was born in Thailand, thus assuring the kingdom of doubly good fortune. And so, in the traditional three-hour ceremonies at Chiangmai, King Bhumibol welcomed the albino baby. Buddhist and Brahman priests chanted blessings; the King poured lustral water, presented golden robes...
...original meaning of many Hebrew words. In Proverbs 31:3, for example, which the King James version translates as "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings," the word "ways" should be the more meaningful "power." Yale's Marvin Pope, a Ugaritic expert who translated Job for the Anchor Bible, cites another clarification. In Job 41:25, King James reads: "When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves." Pope argues that a correct translation would be: "At his terror the gods are affrighted; with consternation...
...switch is the work of California Linguistics Expert Maurice William Sullivan, 40, whose interest in language goes back to his hitch as a marine teaching German to U.S. Navy officers during World War II. Many a degree later (B.A. and M.A. in English at Yale, Ph.D. in linguistics at Madrid, B.A. in Spanish at Puerto Rico, M.A. in Spanish at Middlebury), he took up reading theory at Hollins College and Stanford and then retired to a hilltop in California's Santa Cruz Mountains to develop his books. Distributed by McGraw-Hill, they are now used by 200,000 children...
What is missing from this novel is not the author's expert hand, but his heart. All Greene's best novels testify to his own obsession with the meaning or the meaninglessness of life, to his own quest for bearings along the ambiguous border between good and evil. The Comedians somehow reads as if Greene had temporarily given up the search and were merely conducting a guided tour past landmarks already found...
...display at Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery is its new acquisition, a rare Rubens (above), which Expert Jakob Rosenberg, senior research fellow at the National Gallery, calls "practically the only case where the artist himself has declared this picture to be completely by his own hand...