Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remaining House year-books, Kirkland's Deacon's Testament, will not be published this year, House Committee Chairman Bruce Harriman '50 announced last night. He said that the immediate cause for the Testament's demise was a $250 loss on last year's edition...
Harriman attributed this loss to the declining interest shown in the Testament since the war. He pointed out that this lack of interest in a House yearbook had resulted in a decline in the Testament's literary and photographic quality...
...decided to select the best stories in the Old Testament, cut them down for easier reading, and present them in a big well-printed book, profusely illustrated by an artist who could make the prophets and kings of Israel as real as the corner grocer and the local minister. The pictures on the four following pages are examples of what he meant. Along with 24 others, they are full-page illustrations for the big (9 in. by 12 in.) book, In Our Image* edited by Harte and published this week. The 26 stories, told in the fine, measured English...
...illustrate the stories, Harte picked an intense, white-haired little artist named Guy Rowe. When 55-year-old Artist Rowe accepted the commission, he knew next to nothing about the inside of the Bible. For months before picking up a brush, he read and reread the Old Testament, steeping himself in its character and drama. Then he began a patient, persistent search-among his friends, in public places, on trains and planes-for the faces that would fit his conception of the prophets and kings of Israel. Only one picture was posed: his son and daughter-in-law became Adam...
Victor Hugo may have called Fabre the "Homer of the Insects," but Fabre was not so much a Homer as a St. Paul. The latter dug into the Old Testament to base his conclusions on revelation. Fabre . . . drew from the insect world conclusions which have not only never been explained but which have been ignored. To him there was revelation in nature...