Word: versions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the ABC show was just a televised version of the network's radio coverage-bad TV practice, but in this case it paid off. By & large, radio reported the 1948 election better than TV. It had the pacing, organization and assurance that the cub reporter still lacked...
Translator Knox is unconcerned about the Bible as "literature." He paid scant attention to the rich, rhythmic prose of the King James version. He worked directly from the Latin, Hebrew and Greek texts, hoping to get the sense across and letting the poetry fall where it might. But he avoided using a specifically modern idiom because it would soon be obsolete again; his aim was to achieve a kind of timeless English...
Novelist Evelyn Waugh has said of his friend's translation: "It is unquestioned that for the past 300 years the Authorized Version has been the greatest single formative influence in English prose style. But that time is over . . . When the Bible ceases, as it is ceasing, to be accepted as a sacred text, it will not long survive for its fine writing. It seems to me probable that in a hundred years' time the only Englishmen who know their Bibles will be Catholics. And they will know it in Msgr. Knox's version...
...Seminar is an abridged version of a 10-month course given at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington and is similar to courses now being given in other major industrial centers of the country...
Finn, Bethelem, Pa., senior, has tossed eight touchdown passes and picked up 673 yards via the air. Chuck Nelson, halfback flanker in the Engle wing T version of the standard T formation, has been the best receiver of Finn's passes but Frank Mahoney, an end, has been valuable as a decoy when not on the receiving end of the Finn aerials...