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...city. Just that morning, armed with electric "cattle prods" and police dogs, the law had arrested nearly 150 children who had entered a posh hotel dining room asking to be served. A spirited old lady named Mrs. Peabody had also been arrested. With the publicity of these two events Hosea hoped to draw more support from the outside. However, local segregation was proving tough to crack. What little we Negro and white demonstrators achieved here would be a minor advance in the struggle for integration. What we white students contributed, moreover, was useful at the moment, but would lose...
...Hosea's statements touched on an essential moral aspect that prospective student demonstrators should be concerned with. One should not regard civil rights demonstrations as an "Experience"; just one or two participations are worse than not acting at all. As Northerners we are open to the charge of irresponsibility: we can leave the scene of action and resume our normal lives without being subject to the after-effects as the local Negroes are. For instance, Negroes comprise only 25% of St Augustine's population, and are mostly dependent on local white employment...
...Testament was such a success, Phillips admits, that people pestered him to try the Old as well. Now Macmillan has published in the U.S. Phillips' first attempt to put the Hebrew books in English, a translation of Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah called Four Prophets...
Brisk English. Some Scriptural experts complain that Phillips' concern for sense rather than literal accuracy produces paraphrase rather than translation. Nonetheless, his method produces particularly happy results in Hosea, a puzzling book with a notoriously corrupt Hebrew text. Freely transposing sentences and phrases, Phillips produces line after line of brisk English that enlightens where the King James Version confuses-and probably makes more sense than the original. Sample comparative verses from Hosea...
Scholars agree that many of the differences in translations are absurdly anachronistic in the Ecumenical Century. For Catholics, the list of Old Testament prophets includes Osee and Sophonias; Protestants call them Hosea and Zephaniah. In Protestant Bibles, one of the books attributed to St. John is called Revelation; Catholics call it the Apocalypse. Other differences are more substantial: the Protestant Old Testament, for example, has 39 books; the Catholic, 45. Nonetheless, the Rev. J. Coert Rylaarsdam, an Episcopalian and chairman of Biblical studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School, believes that "nothing now is in the way of English...