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Clinton is a movie buff, a decent Hearts player and an avid reader. The Rhodes Scholar also has a decent memory, Bronfman said...
Clinton is a movie buff, a decent Hearts player and an avid reader. The Rhodes Scholar also has a decent memory, Bronfman said...
...certain loss of majesty has transpired here, as it does throughout, the editors remain unapologetic. "The translators have made a conscious effort to provide a text that can be easily understood by the average reader of modern English," they write. "The result is a translation of the Scriptures written generally at the reading level of a junior high school student." Since poetry is harder to grasp than prose, the poetry is rendered prosaically. Thus the King James version's "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" (Ecclesiastes 2: 3) must become...
Will such religious and social influence be achieved by any of the new, simplified Bibles? The publishers' stated ideal of providing a text suited to the individual needs of each reader repudiates any such ambitions. The Bible must strive for democratic diversity, so the current thinking goes; the day is past when a dominant incarnation of it could, or should, exert a centripetal, unifying force on religious and social discourse...
They're sisters, they're Brits, and they've both been in Jane Austen movies. But that's where the similarities between EMMA and SOPHIE THOMPSON end. "Emma loves Austen, but I've never been a great reader. As a child I read Peanuts and Asterix," says Sophie, who plays the woebegone Miss Bates in Emma and the difficult sister Mary Musgrove in Persuasion. While Emma studied at Cambridge, Sophie left school early, and says her favorite hobby is "gluing things." Her mother Phyllida Law, also in Emma, is now making a movie with Emma, but the three have...