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...luck as to deduction. Driving past Ampthill Park one afternoon, near a spot where Williams had once lived, Thomas let his dog out for a run. The dog gave him a leg up on his search by discovering a stone in the park inscribed with a passage from Psalm 104: "The earth is full of thy riches." Near by was a cross that memorialized Catherine of Aragon...
...Lord's our shepherd," says the psalm...
Revised Standard Version (1952, 50 million sold to date, cheapest hardcover edition $4.50). This translation is sold by many Bible publishers. It keeps close to King James phrasing with modest updating; for example, Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want; he makes me lie [instead of "maketh me to lie"] down in green pastures . . . " It has made use of the latest research into sources, and so is highly regarded by scholars. The R.S. V. is a useful text for many purposes and most denominations. But Evangelicals and Fundamentalists, who buy the King James Version...
...themes of Steely Dan songs remain unclear. "Babylon Sisters" opens the album, a psalm to menages a trois. But not to worry, the Dan says, "The kid will live and learn, as he watches his bridges burn from the point of no return." Wow--three cliches strung together in an entirely new fashion! Music has never been so coolly banal...
...Glover, brought a font of types, a printing press and a large stock of paper in England in that year and set sail for Cambridge. He died, but the press fared better, and soon it was operating under Harvard's auspices. The first books off the press--The Bay Psalm Book, and Eliot's Indian Bible...