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This week the Revised Standard Version was published in the U.S. (Nelson; $6) in a first printing of 1,000,000 copies. A conservative-looking maroon buckram volume on the outside, the new Bible has some surprises for the conservative reader inside. Such familiar Biblical words as "Jehovah" and "Calvary," for example, are nowhere to be found; the editors held them to be medieval usages, without particular justification, and replaced them with "Lord," and "the place which is called The Skull." Such familiar circumlocutions as "And it came to pass . . ." have also disappeared...
...JEHOVAH BLUES (282 pp.)-Marguerite Steen-Doubleday...
...tidy 18th-century fortune in the slave trade, and it sold more than 600,000 copies in all editions. Three years ago, in Twilight on the Floods, Author Steen brought the family up to the late 19th century, and showed them ebbing into downright respectability. Now, in Jehovah Blues, she puts a short and almost dispirited postscript to the story; the Floods have evaporated to a small perfume-puddle of neurosis named Aldebaran...
This includes jazz music and, in particular, a jazz musician she once slept with in Paris-one Lee Marion, who wrote a song called Jehovah Blues ("The beat . . . was a slow dripping of blood") and then headed back to the U.S. Aldebaran spends the greater part of the book in pursuit of Musician Marion, who quite evidently does not want her blood guilt dripping on him. Aldebaran realizes this only after she and Author Steen have floundered through the swamplands of the U.S. color question...
...Odessa, Grace Marie Olliff, 20, lay critically ill after an auto crash in which her skull, pelvis and left leg were broken. Doctors said that she must have blood transfusions to save her life. The patient said she was not a Jehovah's Witness, would accept the blood. But her father William, 51, pushed into her room and shouted: "You're trying to kill my girl." Flanked by his two sons, he stood guard at the door to prevent a transfusion...