Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such Hollywood efforts as George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told (scheduled for production this spring and summer), which will run a scant three hours. The Bible, which will go before the cameras next year, will be shown to audiences in three segments, two for the Old Testament, one for the New. Roughly a dozen directors will work on the picture. None are signed yet, but De Laurentiis thinks Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) might get things off to a rousing start with the Creation. He is saving Ingmar Bergman for the Apocalypse...
Died. Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, 90, genial, imaginative Biblical scholar who in 1923 produced one of the first translations of the New Testament in modern English (The New Testament: An American Translation), continued his lifelong crusade to distill clear 20th century meaning from archaic Biblical language with a steady flow of books and essays (How to Read the Bible, A Life of Jesus); of a stroke; in Los Angeles...
...Mean Spear. When Paddy Chayefsky's Gideon was on the road in Philadelphia, Fredric March, who plays God, graciously requested that Douglas Campbell (Gideon) be given equal billing. The gesture was just. Campbell's is a star performance throughout, a convincing portrait of an Old Testament bumpkin who holds earthy colloquy with his Maker ("I can't love you, God, you're too vast a concept") and shivers under the impact of the divine power that enables him to command his tribe and save his people. Campbell, 39, also built the foundations of his career...
Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson (1824-63) : "Let us cross over the river and sit under the shade of the trees." Ronald Knox (1888-1957), English cleric: asked if he would like to hear a passage from his own New Testament, answered faintly, "No," lapsed into unconsciousness, and then just audibly: "Awfully jolly of you to suggest it, though...
...service, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, delivered a eulogy. Earlier, Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, mentioned Jaeger's "truly great legacy of scholarship" and "quiet, joyful devotion to study...