Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neither utters a word. "Contact can hurt," concludes Narrator Ralph Bellamy, "but not as much as non-contact." ∙BOOKS. A paperback with an unlikely title, The Cotton Patch Version of Paul's Epistles, has just been published by Association Press, a Y.M.C.A. affiliate. Written by Clarence L. Jordan, a Southern Baptist minister who helped found Koinonia Farm, an integrated colony of whites and Negroes in Georgia, the book transposes the writings of St. Paul into a modern-day setting, the U.S. South. Galatians thus becomes The Letter to the Churches of the Georgia Convention, while 1 Thessalonians...
...Jordan's freewheeling paraphrase tries to catch the colloquial, contemporary quality of the Pauline letters. As translated in the King James version, Romans 2:9 vows "tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile." In Jordan's phrasing, the threat comes out: "Hellfire and brimstone upon every son of a gun who works for the wrong, whether he's a 'superior' white or a Negro." Romans 1:25 excoriates those "who changed the truth of God into a lie"; this becomes, in Jordanese...
...Dixie dialect is artificial at times, and Jordan's version is not so consistently readable a modernization as J. B. Phillips' classic Letters to Young Churches. But Jordan's goal is sound: "The Scripture should be taken out of the stained-glass sanctuary and put out under God's skies...
Finally, with much of his army again in ruins-and with Radio Amman broadcasting appeals for blood donors -Jordan's King Hussein called it quits. He asked the U.S. embassy in Amman for State Department help in arranging a ceasefire. Washington, which only the day before had authorized a renewal of arms shipments to Jordan, was glad to step in, and the Israelis quickly agreed to silence their guns...
Making a Point. Israel hoped, said Dayan, to "teach Jordan that a ceasefire is a cease-fire and that it applied to both Israel and Jordan." The Arab terrorist organizations, which have been responsible for starting most of the trouble, announced from the safety of Damascus that they would continue their raids, but King Hussein got the Israeli message. In a broadcast over Radio Amman, he promised to try to keep the terrorists from using Jordan as a base. "As of today," he said, "I shall not allow anyone to supply the enemy with pretexts and justifications for aggression." Whether...