Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first really readable, authoritative English translation of one of the world's oldest and greatest religious classics was published last fortnight. It is The Bhagavad Gitā (The Song of the Lord), often called the Hindu New Testament, translated by Swami Nikhilananda (Rama-krishna-Vivekananda Center, New York; $3). Also published, without the profuse notes and comments of the larger volume, was a $2 pocket-size edition of the Gltā's text ("for daily devotional study . . . very convenient when traveling...
When captured by the Germans, each American is given a kit containing a combination diary and photograph album, notebooks, pocket Testament, athletic equipment, pencils, checkers or chess, a mouth organ, etc. He also gets a German-English dictionary, a book of light reading, and a letter explaining educational courses he can take through the Y. The Y sponsors trade schools for prisoners (instructors are captured Americans), supplies the textbooks...
...Condition of Man is erudite, lengthy (467 pages), cocksure. It is jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence of an Old Testament prophet, sometimes with the horse sense of a veterinarian...
...rare evenings when he gets home early, Jan Smuts meditates a moment or two over a book of philosophy, or reads a verse of Shelley, or turns to the well-thumbed Greek Testament that goes with him everywhere...
...covering as a young correspondent. When the rains came, they rode in water, slept in water; they endured cold, hunger, rags, sudden surprise, desperate flight. Through it all, yellow-bearded, slouch-hatted Commandant-General Smuts carried in his saddlebags, along with his biltong (dried venison) and coffee, a Greek Testament and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. In retrospect, he seems to have fought not so much for a free Boer State as for a more tolerant British imperialism. But he fought to the very end, to the war's last action, the siege of O'okiep...