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...translators have made a conscious effort to provide a text that can be easily understood by the average reader of modern English," they write. "The result is a translation of the Scriptures written generally at the reading level of a junior high school student." Since poetry is harder to grasp than prose, the poetry is rendered prosaically. Thus the King James version's "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" (Ecclesiastes 2: 3) must become, "There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under the heaven...
...waving a baton at them. If Kaplan at Salzburg did not bring to mind a slick stick like Riccardo Muti or Valery Gergiev, his intense, attentive manner in front of the Philharmonia, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, mezzo-soprano Doris Soffel and soprano Rosa Mannion bespoke a firm grasp. Mahler's heaven-storming climaxes shook the Grossesfestspielhaus to its granite foundations, and anyone who did not feel a chill at the tremendous peroration must either have been dead or Austrian...
...Karadzic neither objected nor thanked them for the changes they had made. Vesovic, who is planning to write a biography of Karadzic, says his former friend's only good book was a volume of poems for children. "He seemed to have understood children; he had this intuitive ability to grasp other people's minds if he wanted...
...most gifted U.S. swimmer since Mark Spitz, cracks his knuckles and fiddles nervously with a copper wrist bracelet--a souvenir from his first Dead concert. "I'm 10 feet from the top of the mountain," he says. "When you're that close, you keep climbing. It is within grasp...
...accept the Israelis' sensible precondition to security. Anything less is guaranteed to catapult the Arab countries back into the center of a downward spiral into poverty, despair and hopelessness. I am tremendously encouraged by the opening gambit of the Netanyahu camp. Time will tell whether Assad and company will grasp an outstretched, yet protected, hand...