Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridge World Editor Alphonse Moyse Jr. says Reader Howell has submitted a variant of the legendary Duke of Cumberland whist hand. The duke, sitting South (in this version), failed to take a single trick-and lost a bet of ?20,000 to West...
Indiscreet. Gary Grant dispensing yachts and yacht-ta-ta to Ingrid Bergman in a funny, freewheeling version of Broadway's Kind...
...Administration version of reality, then, relies mainly on the suppression of dissent. Papa knows best, and children should be seen and not heard. Unfortunately for Messrs. Eisenhower and Nixon, such is not the way of democracy. The presumption that the government is infallible has never been popularly accepted, and even bipartisanship is only viable in times of genuine consensus. Obviously, this is not one of those times...
...sensibilities. This leads him to some surprising alterations. In the King James passage describing the raising of Lazarus, for instance, Martha protests Christ's command to open the tomb with the words: "Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days." Phillips' version: "But Lord," said Martha, "he has been dead four days. By this time he will be decaying...
Some theologians and all lovers of the King James version's majesty will wince at Phillips' rendering of the famed "In-the-beginning-was-the-Word" prologue to the Gospel of John: "In the beginning God expressed himself. That personal expression, that word, was with God and was God, and he existed with God from the beginning." In the Beatitudes, too, many will take issue at Phillips' rendering of the "poor in spirit" as "humble-minded," "they that mourn" as "those who know what sorrow means," "the meek" as "those who claim nothing," and the "pure...