Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literature is enabling scholars to achieve new insight into the meaning of many passages. For example, the question of what the angels sang in their well-known announcement of Jesus' birth has long bothered Biblical scholars. "And on earth peace, good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will." Now in the scrolls the idiom is found in its original form: "good will to men of [God's] favor," i.e., the elect in the apocalyptic...
...Onetime Cinemoppet Shirley Temple was signed last week as narrator for a series of one-hour fairy tales, and things look Grimm elsewhere. CBS is preparing a 9O-min. musical version of Aladdin for the fall, and NBC has at least six others brewing, including Pinocchio, Hans Brinker and The Pied Piper...
...point in the hearings did the security officers assert that Dr. Oppenheimer's final version either minimized the nature of the proposal or was in any sense untrue...
...addition, New Girl in Town, a musical version of O'Neill's 1921 Anna Christie, will open on Hroadway...
Only the nominees contending for awards managed to work up some tension. In Paris, where she is appearing in the French version of the play Tea and Sympathy, Expatriate Ingrid Bergman, up for best actress for her performance in Anastasia, hustled home after the last curtain, downed sedatives, and slept soundly until her phone rang at 6 a.m. with the news of her second Oscar. (Her first: in 1944, for the role of Mrs. Anton in Gaslight.) His shaved head glistening like a polished cue ball, Yul Brynner won the best actor award for his autocratic king in Rodgers...