Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Champagne for Cèzanne. Chateaubriand, who has twice been a Senator and is now Brazil's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, is famed for his sudden impulses. In 1946 Chatô met a visiting Italian art critic, Pietro Maria Bardi, embraced him joyfully and...
The painters used their year abroad to feast their eyes, rather than to pick up the mannerisms of a foreign school. They soaked in "the golden glow of Rome," tingled to the spirit of Paris that "sped up the spin of idea and image." James Harvey in Egypt quarried into...
As vicar of a London church during the World War II blitz, Phillips discovered why it was so hard to get the rudiments of Christianity across to the young people of his parish: the King James version of the Bible was a foreign language to them. So he began to...
Readers' Sensibilities. The Bible translator, Phillips feels, must pay close attention to context-not only the context in which a word appears, or the context "of supreme urgency and often of acute danger" in which a passage was composed, but also the context of the modern readers' sensibilities...
Some theologians and all lovers of the King James version's majesty will wince at Phillips' rendering of the famed "In-the-beginning-was-the-Word" prologue to the Gospel of John: "In the beginning God expressed himself. That personal expression, that word, was with God and was...