Word: nag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, students of the history of piano-playing may now find answers to many of the questions that nag their conversation (But how good was Busoni?), for the sweep of genius from those halcyon days is very nearly complete. The old pianists seem far more individual and whimsical than today's players. Saint-Saens had a touch like Sonny Liston; Olga Samaroff, born Lucie Hicken-looper in Texas and once married to Stokowski, had all the percussive power of a butterfly...
...couple nag the boy to smile and lecture him about love. Dora calls him "chickabiddy," a name that every little boy has an inalienable right not to be called. Malcolm prays for his "dark, misdirected little mind" in church. When Robert fails to come around, the couple comfortably conclude that he is ruining their marriage...
...Dead Sea Scrolls got all the publicity. But more useful to students of early Christian history is a cache of Coptic papyri unearthed near Nag Hammadi in northern Egypt in 1945, the remnants of a library used by a community of Gnostics in the 5th century. The texts are copies of sacred writings from earlier centuries, when the church was struggling to disentangle itself from the early heresy of Gnosticism, which blended Christian ideas with mystical elements from pagan religions of the East. Published last week was the first English translation of one of the most important Nag Hammadi documents...
...fishes. In stead, following a custom of the early Christian era, it was written by some unknown author who sought to give his own writings the ring of authority by purporting to speak in some measure for the Apostle. Unlike the already translated Gospel of Thomas, from the same Nag Hammadi collection, Philip contains no sayings of Jesus that scholars are tempted to consider genuine. Nonetheless, the author knew his New Testament; the Gospel is larded with references to the four Evangelists and to a number of the epistles of Paul...
...work; 5,700,000 readers are without their papers; 350 blind news vendors have shuttered their stands; the city's economic pulse has measurably slowed. But these wounds are superficial, and will eventually heal. The strike cuts far deeper, by raising questions that will nag at the consciences of those directly involved long after the publishers and the printers have come to terms...