Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes you wonder...
Anyone with two cents worth of intelligence is going to wonder about Hite's methodology, an issue she has minimized in innumerable interviews. Most of the questionnaires were distributed through NOW, Oui, Mademoiselle, Ms. and The Village Voice--which obviously slants the sampling toward certain income levels, races and frames of mind. (I would bet no female Ford Motor Co. factory worker ever saw the questionnaires.) This is undeniably a flaw, but not of the magnitude that some reviews have made...
...should be of particular interest to the Harvard community. Political repression increases daily in Iran. More than 100,000 people currently are imprisoned in the country for political crimes, and, in the first four months of 1976 alone, the government executed more than 80 political prisoners. It is no wonder then that the Medical School cancelled its contract with the Iranian government partly as a result of its findings on repression and torture in Iran...
...friends who are Jewish but not devout, Hannukah cards to Jewish friends who are devout, religious designs to fellow Christians and letters of varying length to out-of-towners. It takes weeks, and they rarely get through their list. I hope I'm on it-and I wonder what they'll think of my card...
Good News is so conversational that readers may wonder guiltily if it is a "real" Bible at all. At first look it resembles Kenneth Taylor's folksy The Living Bible, a paraphrase rather than a translation, which has sold nearly 20 million copies since 1971. But Good News is a true translation, insists the Bible Society's Eugene A. Nida. The Living Bible is "interested in what the author intended. We are interested in what he said." This does not mean word-for-word translation. Says one project expert, "There is no way to translate the Hebrew poetic...