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Many male pronouns are out, and well-worn verses have been rewritten in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the latest entry in the crowded Scripture market...
Bonnettstown: A House in Ireland by Andrew Bush (Abrams; $37.50). Built near Kilkenny in 1737, this limestone manor house is revealed in 45 magnificent color photographs. The rooms display the cluttered charm that only two centuries of daily use can bring. Bush revels in textures: flaking plaster, rubbed wood, well-worn carpets. This book celebrates old but ageless beauty...
...country resound with the din of thousands of Swiss practicing their marksmanship. At the same time, Northrop F-5E Tiger fighter jets skim along mountain faces and blue-gray-uniformed figures clamber down couloirs and across alpine meadows. With a militia of 625,000 men, Switzerland, as the well-worn saying goes, does not have an army, it is an army...
ERROLL GARNER: DANCING ON THE CEILING (Emarcy). This second volume of previously unreleased material shows off Garner's angular, driving, two-fisted piano at its best. His dazzling improvisations breathe new life into well-worn standards like It Had to Be You and show why, twelve years after his death, this legendary jazzman remains in a class...
...Other well-worn lines have not fared so well in the new hymnal, the most thorough overhaul since 1878. The latest version, 3 million copies of which are being shipped to churches, carries only half the 547 hymns contained in the previous, 1966 edition. Of those, 162 survive with rejiggered words. The most significant alterations involve not war and peace but the battle of the sexes. With women destined to form half of Methodist clergy early in the 21st century, the 16-man, nine-woman hymnal committee desexed many a familiar line that was deemed to perpetuate male bias...