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...Living Translation is actually a revision and updating of The Living Bible (1972), Kenneth Taylor's loose, breezy paraphrase of the Old and New Testaments (I Samuel 20: 30: "You son of a bitch"). It was frankly intended for readers who found Scriptural translations tough sledding, and those readers responded gratefully. The Living Bible has sold 40 million copies to date...
...moral standards for the world? In part because Americans have always felt themselves uniquely the standard-bearers of democracy and Western ideals and in part because they like the role of sole remaining superpower. "We have historically thought of American values as being universal," says Harvard University political scientist Samuel Huntington, "and ones we have the responsibility and obligation to induce other societies to accept." Or as Kantor puts it, "The U.S., as the most powerful economic and military entity on earth, needs to provide leadership. I would hope and expect our partners to review their policies and go along...
...even Samuel Beckett, the Irish pessimist who was born on Good Friday--the 13th--and whose fondest artistic hope was to "fail better," might have smiled at the glory of it all. Beckett (1906-89) would have been 90 this year, and to celebrate his indelible mark on the modern spirit, the Gate Theatre of Dublin came to New York City's Lincoln Center with productions of all 19 works he wrote for the stage, from the full-length Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Happy Days to the 40-second Breath. (Another 13 pieces were composed for radio...
...which ended last week, is fresh evidence of a bustling industry devoted to the Nobel-prizewinning author. He has inspired more than 100 books, including three essential studies this year: Mel Gussow's Conversations with and About Beckett (Grove Press) and two biographies--Lois Gordon's The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 (Yale University Press) and an authorized life, Damned to Fame, by Beckett scholar James Knowlson (due in October from Simon & Schuster). Knowlson's book is reverent, exhaustive--3,361 footnotes!--and full of fine detail on Beckett's dogged, monastic creativity. If anyone could know this private...
...calling Babe Ruth one of the all-time great Brooklyn Dodgers. Finger-style players create a sound so different from that produced by flat pickers that to mistake the two is almost blasphemous. The world of music has suffered a tragic loss. We will certainly miss you, Marcel! SAMUEL A. SIMOWITZ Savannah, Georgia...