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...adolescence? I spent many an hour poring over the pictures of the naked women in Africa and the South Sea Islands in National Geographic, and many a Sunday morning at church service engrossed in the erotic poetry and stories of lust, adultery, homosexuality, murder and incest in the Old Testament...
DIED. Marc Connelly, 90, playwright, bon vivant and raconteur whose 1930 play The Green Pastures, depicting Old Testament stories as they might have been enacted by Southern plantation blacks, is one of the enduring triumphs of the American theater; in New York City. An early collaborator of George S. Kaufman and one of the circle of wits at the Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s, he later turned to directing, writing and traveling...
Today, Harvard's Seymour Society is decidedly pentecostal in orientation. To group members, "pentecostal" does not refer to a specific denomination but, rather, to those Christians who believe the Holy Spirit is still alive as presented in the New Testament. They believe in the power of baptism in the Holy gifts: among them, healing, prophecy, and speaking in tongues...
...charge of the RSV revision is the Rev. Bruce M. Metzger, 66, a gentlemanly New Testament professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. While Metzger is conservative on matters of doc trine, he is willing to avoid male nouns and pronouns-where the original Hebrew and Greek texts allow it. Thus the reference in Romans 14: 1 to "the man who is weak in faith" will likely become "the one who is weak . . ." In Psalms, the first verse will read "Blessed are those who walk not in the counsel of the wicked," rather than "Blessed is the man who walks...
Without those diesels, the power plant is still a hollow shell, a $230 million testament to Harvard's failure to realize that striving for efficiency sometimes leaves people angry. Two weeks ago, 57 people who spend eight hours a day inside MATEP decided that they'd had enough, and put a temporary crimp in Harvard's plans. But in another two weeks, a state bureaucrat who has spent eight hours a day for a year thinking about MATEP will tell Harvard whether it can install its diesels--a decision that could ruin those plans permanently...