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...similar arguments, Robinson dates other books by what they omit. Because Acts breaks off without mentioning Nero's purge and the deaths of Peter and Paul, Robinson thinks it must have been written around A.D. 62. Although the Letter of James has often been dated in the 2nd century, Robinson insists that it is the earliest book of all. Since it expresses no division between Christianity and Judaism, he figures that it must predate the first ecumenical council in A.D. 48, where the church worked out its policy toward Paul's new mission to the Gentiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Testament Dating Game | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Several other papers throughout the country, including the Chicago Tribune and The Milwaukee Journal, have decided to omit today's strip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: True Romance Blossoms, But The Globe Spurns Episode Of Doonesbury | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

Although The Globe has no plans to omit other episodes of the comic strip, some newspapers--including The Chicago Tribune and The Milwaukee Journal--have decided to cut all of next week's cartoons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: True Romance Blossoms, But The Globe Spurns Episode Of Doonesbury | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...rarely heard music. Gershwin's recitatives have traditionally been replaced by spoken dialogue. Most productions have entirely eliminated a brief, sensual scene showing the night life of Charleston, with the character Jasbo Brown playing some lowdown blues on a splendidly out-of-tune upright piano. They also usually omit Porgy's superstitious "Buzzard Song" ("Once de buzzard fold his wing an' light over yo' house/ All yo' happiness done dead") as well as several chunks of the last scene. All that restored material does make for a three-hour-long evening (Houston, wisely perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Return of Porgy | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...that all Americans?welfare recipients and welfare workers, black civil rights activists and white segregationists, hardhats and students?are good people. Despite opponents' criticisms that he was two-faced, he almost invariably took the same stand before all audiences. He might fuzz his position on some issues, or omit Martin Luther King's name from a list of great Americans as he spoke before conservatives in Florida, but his basic themes were consistent. They were also upbeat and positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: STAMPEDE TO CARTER | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

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