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...translation of the Psalms is being published in the U.S. next week. Modern readers will miss the drums and tramplings of the King James version-but the simple, matter-of-fact English of Britain's witty, whodunit-writing Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (The Psalms, Sheed & Ward, $2) gives some of David's songs a sharp new applicability. Excerpt (Psalm...
...staunch, God-fearing people of the countryside wrote a letter to Harry Truman. Then they turned elsewhere. A hundred of them trooped into the church, prayed for Bobby Colby and spoke the 40th Psalm in unison: "For innumerable evils have compassed me about. . . . They are more than the hairs of my head. . . . O Lord, make haste to help...
...Denis danced the Resurrection in one Manhattan church, the 63rd Psalm in another, moved to California to build her temple of the dance. She worked in the graveyard shift (from midnight to 8 a.m.), sorting parts in an aircraft plant. Now she is rehearsing the 1 50th Psalm for a Hollywood Bowl performance in July...
...Chaplain] paused a moment. Then he pronounced the words of the Twenty-third Psalm: 'The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters...