Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOVIE NIGHT SPECIAL (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* Truman Capote's TV version of the 1944 film Laura, starring Jackie's sister, Lee Bouvier Radziwill. Repeat...
...early 1920s did work for the magazine of the Railwaymen's Union and did write a novel (The White Guard), the beginning of which was serialized in the last two issues of a dying literary journal. And Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theater did stage a version of the novel in 1926. But the play, retitled The Days of the Turbins, was a success...
...sentimental, post-Darwin fatalism. The result is one of the enduring minor poems of the language-awash with fanciful exoticism, vivid and resonant. But scholars have been scandalized by the liberties that FitzGerald took with the original, and for a century have tried in vain to supplant his version with more literal renderings...
After this version was published in England last fall (TIME, Nov. 3), Graves was attacked not only for trying to break the spell of the famed passages ("A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou" became "one mancel loaf, a haunch of mutton and a gourd of wine set for us two alone"), but also for making some scholarly blunders of his own. L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves...
Without essentially changing the meaning, Graves reduces it to this version: What we shall be is written...