Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Testament Miniatures. Introduction by Sydney C. Cockerel!; Preface by John Plummer. 209 paqes. Braziller. $50. Stunning facsimile reproductions of medieval miniatures that illustrate the Creation, as well as the subsequent doings of Adam, Eve, the serpent, Noah, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samuel, Saul, David and Goliath, with as much lively detail as a supercomic strip and as much eloquent beauty as most Adorations of the Virgin. The book of the year at practically any price...
...images. The attitudes may or may not appear acceptable from a contemporary Negro point of view. But the images hold, and will survive-a settled beauty enduring through and ultimately beyond this year or any year's contention on campus, street riot or ghetto anger. They are a testament of shared respect, an acknowledgment of mutual dignity...
What Perrin's survey makes alarmingly evident is that bowdlerizing could become almost as unbridled a lust as lust itself. An expurgator may begin quietly enough by "lopping" or "cutting." He might omit, say, Sodom and Gomorrah from Old Testament stories. But before he is through, he is likely to end up as a compulsive cleaner-"the sort of man who is capable of bringing out an expurgated edition of Wordsworth," as a Victorian clergyman with a penchant for editing was once described...
...last testament was in keeping with his personal brand of austerity. Written in a succinct style that U.S. analysts immediately pronounced authentic, it called on North Viet Nam's Communists to preserve the unity that has marked the party over its 24-year history and expressed hopes that his successors would do their best to reduce the tensions besetting other Communist parties (see following story). As for the war that had occupied his final years, he predicted: "The U.S. imperialists will have to pull out. Our compatriots in the North and in the South will be reunited under...
...death, Ho Chi Minh last week achieved what had begun to look like an impossible feat. He brought Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-lai together for perhaps as much as 41 hours of talks. In his final testament, Ho described how "deeply I am grieved at the dissensions that are dividing the fraternal parties." Few parties have been less fraternal lately than the Chinese and the Russian, yet both, for their own reasons, responded to Ho's plea for unity. Though the conference at Peking Airport appeared to leave intact the deep ideological chasm...