Word: texts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amsterdam competition, the magazine won eleven of the 55 prizes, more than any other news publication. That was a gratifying welcome for Stephenson, who became picture editor 2 1/2 months ago. A native of Washington, she joined the magazine in 1966. After spending eleven years as a picture and text researcher, she left TIME to become picture editor of US magazine, then assistant managing editor of Look. She returned in 1979 as a deputy picture editor, and was appointed to her current post late last year after the retirement of Arnold Drapkin, who is now our consulting picture editor...
...true: when Superman moved to television, where George Reeves first donned the cape in 1953, his bulging muscles were made of foam rubber. No matter. There are plenty of viewers who can still recite, at any mention of Reeves in his foam-rubber muscles, a quasi-liturgical text: ". . . Strange visitor from another planet, who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman! Who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with his bare hands, and . . . fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American...
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...long preliminary stages, the '88 campaign seemed depressing, a drama in wan search of heroes and meanings. Such diminutive choices must mean that the nation itself has grown diminished. The Old Testament, that thunderous text inhabited by nothing less than the gravitas of God, recorded, "There were giants in the earth in those days." Americans now alive remember Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy -- not all giants in any consensus but men of weight and consequence. But history is full of optical illusions...
Charlesworth's enthusiastic reaction is understandable, for the text he was examining was not just any scrap of parchment. It was the legendary Genesis Apocryphon, one of the original seven rolls of inscribed sheepskin known as the Dead Sea Scrolls -- and the only one whose contents are still largely unread. Unearthed in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds from rocky caves only 15 miles from Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered by biblical archaeologists to be the greatest manuscript discovery ever made. Their texts, set down in Hebrew and Aramaic some 2,000 years ago, include long-lost originals of dozens...