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...Style. Of the four major translations in recent years, the two British projects, the Jerusalem and the New English Bibles, emphasize high literary style. The New American Bible attempted some simplification but the Good News Bible goes much farther. It shuns what one of its translators, the Rev. Heber Peacock, brands "churchy gobbledygook," as well as wording that might be confusing. In the 23rd Psalm, for example, "I shall not want" becomes "I have everything I need." Traditionalists may find that in the process some of the poetry of the standard versions has been clarified out of existence. Often...
With such a comprehensible, attractive Bible available at $2.50 in hardcover, $1.90 paperback, a clergyman phoned Translator Peacock the other day in jest to register a complaint. The Bible, he said, is now "so clear that I don't have to interpret...
...flicker of a TV set as the dial is clicked: rocket, eagle, Kennedy, dancer, oranges, box, all registered with the peacock-hued, aniline-sharp intensity of electronic color. The subject was glut...
...Uris (T last week) 2-Dolores, Susann (2) 3-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 4-The Lonely Lady, Robbins (3) 5-The Deep, Benchley(5) 6-Ordinary People, Guest (7) 7-Crowned Heads, Tryon (6) 8-A God Against the Gods, Drury (TO) 9-The Pride of the Peacock, Holt 10-A Stranger in the Mirror,Sheldon...
Sometimes the changes are small indeed. A number of disciples report having donated a pack of cigarettes to the guru and thereby been freed from the desire to smoke (others, even after the guru has touched them with his sheaf of peacock feathers, still sneak out of the ashram for a quick puff). But many testify that the guru has genuinely helped them to cast off "negative emotions" and achieve a certain tranquillity. Says Muktananda of his own mysterious powers: "I am however you see me. If you see me as a saint, I am a saint...