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Ambiguous Isaiah. Some clarifications are bound to be controversial. "Thou shalt not kill" has become "you shall not commit murder"-thus depriving some pacifists of their principal Old Testament support. But the translators maintain that their reading is closer to the original Hebrew. There may be less quarrel with the N.E.B. rendering of Isaiah 7: 14, which in the King James Version ("a virgin shall conceive") had clearly prefigured the Virgin birth of Christ. Now, the meaning is more ambiguous: "A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel." But the R.S.V...
...would quarrel with Ribicoff's general indictment of the North, although it could be argued that the South's more purposeful and officially sanctioned racial discrimination has helped push blacks into Northern urban ghettos and that the North's kind of racism more readily yields to appeals to conscience. The desire to treat segregation the same in both North and South is also laudable-but not nearly as simple as it sounds. While the courts have repeatedly ruled that de jure segregation, officially sustained by state and local governments, is unconstitutional, and the machinery...
Even more than priests, nuns leaving church service these days rarely do so with a sense of failure. Says Leonora Kountz, a former Sister of Loretto who is now teaching in Chicago: "My order is one of the most progressive in the U.S. I certainly had no quarrel with them. Quitting was a sort of shifting the weight of my life. One's life has a certain weight, or direction, at one time, but it dawned on me that the weight had shifted toward another direction...
...President referred to the problems of the nation's blacks only fleetingly in endorsing "equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership." There was no mention of racial tension-a curious omission in describing the State of the Union in 1970. No one could quarrel with the President's desire to combat crime, but blacks-though they themselves suffer more from crime than anyone else-could hardly welcome the President's priorities. The only area in which he promised immediate new funds was that of law enforcement...
...revisionists have a particular quarrel with the dominant scholarly voice of the recent past: what they call "consensus history," as exemplified by such diverse writers as Richard Hofstadter of Columbia, Daniel Boorstin of the Smithsonian Institution, Henry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley, and George Kennan of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The consensus historians, who came to maturity during World War II and the early years of the cold war, exhibit an understandable hostility to totalitarianism in their writings. By contrast, they emphasize the spirit of compromise and accommodation in American history. Compared with...