Word: neb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEB (a necessary abbreviation that the Times Literary Supplement finds "horrid" because it smacks of Lenin's New Economic Policy), for all its faults, certainly is not. The format and typography announce a complete break with the past. The text is set in prose paragraphs, with chapter and verse numbers, those arbitrary designations placed parenthetically in the margins. The type face, mirabile dictu, is both handsome and legible--a feat unmatched in bibles since the first edition of Johannes Guttenberg...
...translation, the NEB is both sound and helpful. The various mistranslations of the King James Version have been tidled up. "No more do you put new wine into old wine-skins; if you do, the skins burst, and then the wine runs out and the skins are spoilt," makes a good deal more sense than the traditional reading...
...also the NEB on the first chapter of St. John...
William I. Bennett, of Adams House Tacoma, Wash., Slavic Languages Literature; James J. Fox, of Ad- House and Milwaukee, Wis., An-; Joel A. Huberman, of House and Maplewood, N.J., ; Saul A. Kripke, of Ad- House and Omaha, Neb., Mathe-; Ted W. Margadant, of Dunster and Los Angeles, Cal., History; H. Tribe, of Leverett House San Francisco, Cal., Mathematics; C. Waterhouse, of Eliot House Denver, Col., Mathematics; and las P. White, of Eliot House and ridge, Classics...
Organizations like the Committee for Nonviolent Action, of which Keyes and Itkin are members, perform essential functions in nation-wide attempts to abolish the arms development contest. Already their demonstrations against the Omaha, Neb., missile ground and protests against nuclear submarines have attracted national attention...