Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago in the land of my nativity I happened to pick up a translation of the Psalms. The Psalms done from the original Hebrew in a quite pleasing Latin version. The translation was the work of a completely unknown Dutch dominie, the usual Calvinistic medicine-men of the sixteen hundred and seventies. There really was no excuse for my getting the little book except that I like to read well-flowing Latin poetry. I could of course understand only half of everything I read. But I am after the metre...
This was a new version. I remembered that John Eliot had translated the Bible and the catechism into the native vernacular for the convenience of his copper-skinned neighbors, but for the rest, I was only aware of the Rev. John Harvard's desire to build himself an "Institute for the Advancement of Learning" for fear that otherwise the true doctrines might disappear from the American soil when he and hiis fellow-ministers should lie in the dust...
...Tacks explaining the whole economic system as he saw it, a work that is supposed to be a favorite with Franklin Roosevelt. This summer he went to an island in Maine, settled down with Brain Trusters Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen as his neighbors, began to produce a nontechnical version of Brass Tacks...
...concerned with the stratagems of a group of New England college girls trying to make a footloose Yale boy stay home and marry a friend of theirs instead of taking an extended junket to Russia after college. As early as 1927 Eleanor Golden and Eloise Barrangon presented the first version of this romance to a sympathetic audience of classmates at Northampton. Producer Jed Harris got the play three years later, handed it over to his first-string playwright for doctoring five years after that. According to Miss Barrangon, Mr. Barry, the creator of such sophisticated dramas as Paris Bound...
...Joseph Conrad) they generally boil down into an antique kind of penny-dreadful. Scenarists Philip Dunne, John Balderston, Paul Perez, and Daniel Moore worked in shifts for more than a year to keep this from happening to The Lasf of the Mohicans. Net result is an intelligent and exciting version of a story, which, properly loaded with physical action, keeps the imprint of literature...