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...budget battle rages, the Marines will take heavy hits, but they seem sure to prevail once again, a testament to their political firepower...
...Memoirs, a 20th century giant offers his final testament...
Though the 1952 project was a purely Protestant effort, the New R.S.V. team of translators (all unpaid) included five Roman Catholics, a Greek Orthodox and a Jew. Some editions will print only the 39 Old Testament books recognized by Protestantism and Judaism, while others will include additional books that Catholicism and Orthodoxy regard as Scripture. In time, a Catholic edition of the New R.S.V. is expected...
...report chides Rome for ignoring a generation of progressive Bible scholarship. The Roman draft, the Americans say, seems to presume that "New Testament texts are the product of direct historical reporting" and resorts to "proof-texting," quoting Scripture out of context to prove a doctrinal point. In addition, the Americans feel that science has been slighted in favor of an almost Fundamentalist approach to creation...
Folon's career can be seen, the artist proposes ironically, as a testament to the nurturing power of boredom. The son of a Brussels paper wholesaler, Folon quickly came to regard Belgium as "a mental prison, the most boring + place on earth." Art became his means of escape from stifling surroundings, as it was, he suggests, for such other Belgian-born painters as James Ensor and Rene Magritte. Like them, Folon took a strong turn for the fantastic, serving up the quotidian in images dreamy or irreal. But Folon's pictures, compact and whimsical, have always owed more...