Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the flag-hung hall 400 high offi cials and one woman, Mme. Chiang, stood as the Generalissimo recited the testament of Sun Yat-sen and reached for the single sheet of white paper inscribed with the oath of the Presidency. The Generalissimo, in full-dress uniform, was taut, expectant; his decorations gleamed and his immaculate white gloves moved restlessly. Kuomintang Elder Wu Chih-hui, scholar and veteran of 1911, solemnly handed the new President the great jade seal, wrapped in red silk, and Chiang was ready to deliver his Double Ten address, doing double duty as his inaugural...
...most popular modern English versions of the New Testament was issued 20 years ago by Professor Edgar Johnson Goodspeed of the University of Chicago.* Although some 500,000 copies have been sold, this is a drop-in-the-bucket figure compared to the sales of the 300-year-old King James version...
...catch some of these readers, Goodspeed last week issued The Goodspeed Parallel New Testament (University of Chicago Press; $2), in which his version and the King James are printed in parallel columns...
Says Goodspeed: "What the modern reader most wants of the New Testament is to know what it means." The British Bible, he says, was written "for the plow-boys of England."-He thinks that modern readers want to know that "about the sixth hour" means "about noon," that "wine mingled with myrrh" means "drugged wine," that "fifty thousand pieces of silver" means...
...Eyck Olmstead, who held that the Gospels were written in an Aramaic dialect of Jesus' time, and were later translated into Greek. Goodspeed maintains they were originally written in Greek. One of Goodspeed's greatest thrills came in 1927 when he found a rare 13th-century New Testament manuscript in a Parisian antique shop. He got the late rich Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick to buy it for him ($25,000), then he edited the three volumes, called it the Rockefeller McCormick New Testament...