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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REVISED ENGLISH BIBLE (Oxford and Cambridge University presses; $19.95; $21.95 with Apocrypha). What? Another Bible? This mostly felicitous British rendition updates the New English Bible of 1970, shedding thees and thous and many male nouns and pronouns. More important, some quirky Old Testament ! readings from the 1970s have gone to Sheol now that the traditional Hebrew text is back in scholarly fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 16, 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...thees or thous in a streamlined Shakespeare

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Fardels for the Bard | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

...wanted to modernize Shakespeare, pull him up by his Elizabethan pantoffles and bring his 37 plays into our more streamlined age. Do not ask why you would want to engage in such a bootless enterprise; just assume it was your task. Well, first you would change the thees, the thous, the thys and the thines. Instead of "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"-one of the Bard's most famous questions-you would have Juliet ask, "Wherefore art you Romeo?" The archaic verb must go as well, of course, and what you wind up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Fardels for the Bard | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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