Word: textual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Catholic Bible in English to be drawn directly from the original languages rather than from the official Catholic text, the Latin Vulgate completed by St. Jerome in the year 405, and the first to use the "better understanding of Hebrew and of the science of textual criticism . . . since the time of St. Jerome." But the new text is accompanied by very conservative Biblical criticism...
Throughout, the impression was unavoidable that in both choice and interpretation of selections, too much stress was laid upon seeking works notable either for their historical significance or textual content. Tone, precision, sonority--the overall musical possibilities open to some 200 mixed voices were not given enough weight. In the final analysis, it is the sound of music which determines its worth, and the Harvard groups have been straying from this basic premise of late...
...halcyon development. To the more romantically inclined, it may seem the gay picture of "la vie de joie"; to the socially bent, a milestone of that smooth highway on which the London Smart Set zipped along in its multipowered Stutz, bound for decay. But dated or not natural or textual, the production at the Colonial is a combination of some of this century's smoothest dialogue, shouted, laughed, cried, and whispered by something rare in the theatrical world an acres...
...today failed to heed divine guidance, they could no longer plead textual obscurity...
...hopefully. "That will do, Sir. Good morning," said the examiner. Q failed to get a "first" (equivalent to summa cum laude) but was given an Oxford lectureship, with Virgil and Aristophanes as his subjects ("I tried to communicate my delight in them rather than to discuss niceties of textual criticism...