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...Bible Society, 12 million sold, $4). Even the experts do not agree on whether the Good News is a "real" translation or a paraphrase, but generally scholars defend its faithfulness to the original. This Bible's really notable achievements are its simple vocabulary and an attempt at everyday idiom (I Corinthians 13: "I may be able to speak the languages of men and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell"). A better choice than the Living Bible for people who have trouble reading...
...explored by Sills and Sutherland. An equal achievement was her interpretation of the war-horses-Lucia, Tosca-so that the weariest ear could hear them as new works of art. Her musical values were the strictest and most scrupulous. She sang with complete fidelity to the composer and his idiom; yet the human essence of each heroine shone through her interpretation. Audiences felt that they were seeing Norma or Violetta. Hers was not a conventionally "beautiful" voice, like that of her great rival Renata Tebaldi. It could be volatile and reedy. Her wanderings impaired her health and her voice...
...Flags recently installed on a handkerchief-size plot near Wall Street (which New York City benevolently renamed Louise Nevelson Plaza), are big, imposing and mannered. They leave one convinced that this kind of postconstructivist sculpture-in-the-round is not her forte at all. In her hands the idiom has neither the power of David Smith's welded constructions nor the finesse and precision of Anthony Caro...
...Martial music is supposed to excite sentimental feelings of patriotism and community, then harness them to aggressive instincts; rock songs stir up adolescent anger and lust, and--depending on which side of 1970 you grew up on--either ignite or dissipate them. During the heyday of today's rock idiom, in the mid-'60s, the goals of the two types of music were identical: if you listened to the Jefferson Airplane's "Volunteers," you were supposed to get out in the street, join the volunteers of America" and fight for the revolution...
Sensing Americans' growing interest in food and wine, they decided to recast their menus to emphasize "the best and freshest seasonal foods" and, rather than pay slavish obeisance to Continental cuisine, create food in an American idiom. In this, with Swiss Chef Josef ("Seppi") Renggli, they have succeeded admirably; their prize recipes bloom in all of The Four Seasons (Simon & Schuster; $24.95). Unlike many books by more celebrated restaurateurs, The Four Seasons trio present their recipes, and raisons d'être, in succinct and practical form. Elevating basic family dishes to haute cuisine, their prescriptions range from...