Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fingers strummed the table in front of him. He fidgeted, waved his pen. He leaped to attention to be sworn in, then stopped the court in its tracks by refusing to take his oath on the New Testament. "I'm not bound by any faith,'' he said. Presiding Judge Moshe Landau conferred with the other two judges, permitted Eichmann to swear on thin...
...Denah Lida, wife of Raimundo Lida, professor of Romanco Languages, plans to study the 19th century Spanish novelist, Benito Perez Galdos. The fourth Faculty wife, Mrs. Brita K. Stendahl, wife of Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, will write essays on contemporary Swedish literature...
While his paintings had been all angles -"A cubistic mother feeding a geometric baby out of a trigonometric bottle," one critic sneered-his sculptures have always been round and soft as flesh. Occasionally he turns out a Biblical head that is as fierce and formidable as the Old Testament itself, but his favorite subjects have always been the living creatures around him. There are cats and dogs, embracing lovers, naked children and young madonnas; they emerge out of their prison blocks of stone and wood as naturally as if they had been there all along just waiting to be rescued...
...English Bible. An often skillful, sometimes stilted attempt to make the New Testament Scripture more intelligible to moderns...
Professor Dodd and his fellow translators have aimed at objects in an airy height; but despite the no doubt earnest efforts of those literary advisers, the language of the New English Bible: New Testament is all that the churchmen have sought to avoid...