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...Testament was such a success, Phillips admits, that people pestered him to try the Old as well. Now Macmillan has published in the U.S. Phillips' first attempt to put the Hebrew books in English, a translation of Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah called Four Prophets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: Prophets Paraphrased | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

There could be no questioning the sincerity of the praise for "David O" Joseph Rosenblatt, a Jew and president of the Eimco Corp. asked: "Does anyone know of any man who has lived with greater faith or purpose, and obedience to the exhortation of the Prophet Micah to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with God'?" A Catholic. President J. P. O'Keefe of Salt Lake City's Chamber of Commerce said: "All of us have been keenly aware of the advantages of living m Utah. And almost all these advantages can be attributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Ninth Prophet | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Doctors call the disorder pica (rhymes with Micah), from the Latin for magpie. But whereas the magpie merely collects assorted, useless objects, the pica victim eats them. Favorite items are newspapers, toilet and handkerchief tissues, clay and sand, wood, cigarettes and butts, used matches, laundry starch, crayons, grass and leaves, soap, aluminum foil-and even bugs. One girl of 14 ate several pages of newspaper every day, and found the classified ads especially tasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hand to Mouth | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Jewish people have survived pleadings, the sword and the crematorium in their steadfast devotion to the faith of their fathers. The Jewish position has never been stated more beautifully than in Micah 4:5: "For let all the peoples walk, each one in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1960 | 4/18/1960 | See Source »

...Once Micah has snatched his night of love with Lana, Director Richard Thorpe winds things up with the required doses of remorse, retribution and forgiveness. Lana gets burned up-literally, Calhern gets a knife in the throat, and Micah contentedly trades the fleshpots of Damascus for an entree of veal back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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