Word: texts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DESPITE the strong leads, it is the chorus that finally saves Mattress from becoming an endless series of one-liners and talent-show acts. The chorus provides transitions, which are otherwise neglected in the text, and it fleshes out numerous empty scenes...
...Bible translation, and two dozen scholars are working on a new edition to be issued in the mid-1980s. At their annual gathering last June, the translators took up the sexism issue and readily agreed to drop masculine language that is not included in the original Hebrew or Greek text...
However, says Princeton Theological Seminary's Bruce Metzger, chairman of the Revised Standard Version committee, "we are not going to change references to God where the masculine pronoun is in the text. We fool ourselves if we launder the language. We cannot rewrite history." Nor, it seems, is there any intention of rewriting the opening of the Lord's Prayer-or calling it something else...
...lose the unique meanings of places when we lose the buildings that define them. The book's linked photos and text demonstrate remarkably effectively how physical structure is social structure, how the framework that holds an activity reflects and shapes it. The analysis speaks so directly to personal experience that it's hard to read straight through Forgotten America; I began to mentally illustrate how the form of a building conveys its meaning with my own experiences--what it signifies that Mather House is a fortress on the outskirts of Harvard's enclave, that Leverett House closely resembles a Holiday...
...exclude all followers. Some memorable works have resulted. The close and beautifully exact tonal painting of a landscape like Brown Swiss (1957)-"I wanted it to be almost like the tawny brown pelt of a Brown Swiss bull," he tells Met Director Thomas Hoving in the catalogue text-is not the work of small talent; and there are few American portraits that display such a stoic and irreducible density, pore by pore, as the bald head of The Finn...