Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head a research into the text of the Vulgate, the 1500-year-old standard Latin version of the Bible. The scholar whom he chose for this task was his Eminence Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. Since the Vulgate is the universal biblical authority for all Roman Catholics and since modern discoveries have posed questions against the validity of its sacred interpretations, Cardinal Gasquet's task is one of enormous value as well as gigantic labor. This year the jubilant festival of Easter will wear for Roman Catholics an additional brilliance; the Cardinal has announced that he expects by then...
...interpolations have been equalled in the most recent efforts to correct the history of God's doings; acutely insensitive persons have, for example, deleted from certain chapters all mention of alcoholic liquor, substituting, for such, babbling nouns, or pallid and incoherent adjectives. More valuable and more reasonable are modern efforts to rewrite the King James Version in a prose idiom which more nearly approaches present day vernacular. Of such efforts, the best known...
...published, in 1923, and was printed serially in the Chicago Evening Post & other newssheets, there was a great hue and cry. Critics squeaked about the beauty of the King James Version and the inferiority of the Goodspeed Version. In point of fact, Goodspeed's translation into modern American was in some respects not as well written as the King James Version; it was less poetic, less colored, less powerful in its vocabulary. But the first business of writing is to be intelligible and Dr. Goodspeed's New Testament is more intelligible to the average man than the older...
...Goell's "TO ALL YOU LADIES" (New York $1.50). Although it is Mr. Goell's first poetry, his first published work was "Tramping Through Palestine". The jacket on the slim volume calls it a "gaily whimsical collection of lyrics" by a poet "unaffected by the vagaries of modern verse". To which we might add that the work does not, on the other hand, reflect the best traditions of the past. To be good, verse has to be very good, and "To All You Ladies" is certainly not over excellent poetry...
...Countee Cullen, the Negro poet. Cullen who received an A.M. degree at Harvard two years ago, will use the fellowship to go to Paris to complete a series of narrative poems and the libretto for an opera. He is looked upon as one of the best modern poets to maintain the classical tradition. He is a contributor to Harper's and the Herald-Tribune "Books...