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...established by Reform Jewish synagogues in the New York City area is proposing widespread linguistic changes in the liturgy. It suggests, among other things, dropping the masculine (and biblical) words Father or King and supplanting them simply with "God"; banning "brotherhood" and "fellowship" in favor of "community," "unity" or "kinship." Says Liturgist Rabbi Chaim Stern of Chappaqua, N.Y., who is not a member of the task force: "I am now persuaded that it is illegitimate to use masculine language about God." It is a significant conversion. As editor of Reform's 1975 prayer book, Stern labored four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Desexing the Bible | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...also a totally immersed Christian who knows his Bible, along with all verses of Amazing Grace, and considers neither religion nor kinship particularly joke-worthy. While Carter does not stem-wind like a "How long O Lord?" Frank Clement or Huey Long, he is a truly Southern orator. He is given to nostalgia, imagery and hyperbole. He declared in his acceptance speech in Madison Square Garden, for instance, that the U.S. income tax structure was "a disgrace to the human race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CANDIDATE: How Southern Is He? | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...dawn, and on the floor of the House of Representatives three scholars tried to pour a little of his wisdom into the heads of legislators, who were impatiently edging toward the Easter exit. Jerry Ford limousined over to the Jefferson Memorial to lay a wreath and claim some political kinship with the Virginian. And even one cab driver's tribute was recorded augustly by the Washington Post: "Yeah, I guess he was about the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Oh for Another Stargazing Gardener | 4/26/1976 | See Source »

...Paris, Lisa Jones associated primarily with Africans and West Indians. "Black and white Americans don't mix here or abroad," Jones says. "When a black community is there, blacks are drawn there. I felt a kinship towards them [the Africans and West Indians]. Our color bound us together." She would sometimes pose as a Moroccan, Arab or South American to avoid anti-American feelings from Prenchmen she would meet on the street...

Author: By Mercedes A. Laing, | Title: Down From the Farm | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...unconscious, out of those memories he must surely share with all actors, of bad ideas tried out in rehearsal and found embarrassing, of nights when he must have felt he was going to boil in his own flop sweat. It was those memories-a performer's kinship acknowledged-that informed Olivier's work and, finally, humanized and redeemed his Archie. The recognition of self in the role of Archie and the willingness to admit it are beyond Lemmon. He is distant, predictable and therefore boring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: A Lot of Nerve | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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