Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young, who translated Chekhov for the Modern Library series, has expressed interest in the HDC production and hopes to be able to come to Cambridge...
Rounding out the poetry selections are four satires by Firman Houghton--those on Whitman and Houseman are especially funny--and an amusing "sick, sick, sick" poem by Daniel Langton called "A Modern Poem." They are skillful space fillers. Anne Sexton has five poems printed: all are sentimental--"And that's the Way it Was" inversely so. "The Exorcists" redeems itself in places and "Hutch" looks as if it ought to sound nice...
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. This leads him to some surprising alterations. In the King James passage describing the raising of Lazarus, for instance, Martha protests Christ's command to open the tomb with the words: "Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." Phillips' version: "But Lord...
...many salesmen have been taken off salary and put on straight commission. For the feminine touch, Fohrman Motors (Chrysler) hired saleswomen, because "women influence car buying so much that it is best to cater to their wishes. No man can really understand what it means to get into a modern car wearing a hobble skirt...
Hose Sorry Now? In Wells Ford, New Zealand, city officials discovered that a new, $160,000 fire station .had complete modern plumbing, no water supply...