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Perhaps Browne's difficulty in communicating his feelings stems from his preoccupation with his wife's tragic suicide during the recording of this album. Browne was left with a four-year old son and a desperate need for emotional catharsis. Yet, in his testament to his boy, "The Only Child," Browne is too lyrically lazy to generate much sympathy. With clumsy syntactical twists and forced rhymes he solemnly observes...
...into modern, everyday English. In doing so, the new translation continues one of the great success stories in publishing history. Until the late 1950s, the Bible Society limited itself to distributing low-cost editions of traditional translations. Then it decided to prepare its own Bible, beginning with a New Testament, aimed at roughly a high school reading level...
...strategy worked sensationally well. Since the New Testament appeared in 1966 as Good News for Modern Man (also called Today's English Version), it has become the alltime paperback bestseller (52.5 million copies). In 1967 eight translators began the Old Testament, a far more difficult task...
...Pray to God; she will hear us," runs the standard feminist gibe at "sexism" in the churches. More churchmen, as well as churchwomen, are beginning to agree that there is something to gibe about. Despite the array of strong women in the Old Testament and Jesus' easy assumption of sexual equality in the New, they contend that paternalistic traditions and the very language of faith need to be revised...
...dabbling in the world of business promotions, such as the aircraft he painted up for Braniff Airlines, the less said the better - even though it takes talent to make a DC-8 look that ugly. No matter: the sculpture is his great achievement, and will be his testament...