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...china penises, propped up by quantities of Laurentian burblings about roots, darkness and the archetypal perceptions of the blood. Who, today, would take such an effusion seriously, and what museum would bother with it? To represent Virginia Woolf as a clump of pottery labia majora is on a par with symbolizing Mozart as a phallus. It mashes the complex truths of a great artist's life and work into one obsessive stereotype-all in the name of "history...
...inclusive language," intended to put women on a textual par with men, has long since been accepted in many areas of U.S. publishing, such as school textbooks and children's fables. But its application to the Bible is already stirring an unholy row. The immediate point of contention is the RSV, now being updated by a committee of 25 scholars and translators. Their efforts will have far-reaching importance. With millions of copies sold worldwide since it first appeared in 1952, the RSV is by far the most broadly used Bible translation in modern English...
Hatamiya then showed the form which lifted Quincy over South House in last week's House championship game, hitting receiver par excellence Art "the Quincy Clipper" O'Keefe for 40 big yards. A pass interference call on the next play gave Quincy the ball on the Calhoun five, but after Nichols bulled to the one, a Hatamiya fumble squelched the drive, and the half ended with Quincy...
...press conference last week, Chun said that he would dissolve South Korea's existing parties in order to foster a new multiparty system. Having only two par ties, he said, resulted in "polarization...
...complained of highly erratic delivery throughout the fall, and even the Times and the Globe decided they had had enough of the elusive manager so far back as last November. On any other campus, newspaper officials could have fired the delivery service manager for failure to perform up to par. But because Epps insists that he oversees the service--and that only he can make the managerial changes--the Times and the Globe representatives found their hands tied. It was either HDNS and Marty Olive or no delivery...