Word: wordings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic articles of faith in the beard-and-sandal set is that no woman alive sings jazz like Ella Fitzgerald. Ella it was who schooled a whole generation of vocalists to phrase and improvise like jazzmen; Ella, too, who popularized scatted lyrics and the word rebop. But Ella has always moved with equal ease through the palm-frond world of popular dance music, and Jazz Impresario Norman Granz set out to prove it by issuing a series of albums on his own Verve label featuring Ella in great pop hits. Latest addition to the series: Ella singing Irving Berlin...
...forgotten man." But the New York County District Attorney's office remembered Artist Snodgrass for his moment of fame in Twenty One's low-income brackets (he won $4,000). His testimony, as reported by the New York Post, added up to one word: fraud. Like Contestant Herb Stempel before him (TIME, Sept. 8), said Snodgrass, he was given answers in advance, was eventually told when to lose gracefully to Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden (who went on to win $98,500). An employee of the show, said Snodgrass who refused to identify the culprit, coached...
Readers' Sensibilities. The Bible translator, Phillips feels, must pay close attention to context-not only the context in which a word appears, or the context "of supreme urgency and often of acute danger" in which a passage was composed, but also the context of the modern readers' 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...
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...
That leaves a neat opening for the much rumored Chevrolet "small car," expected out by late 1959. Last week newsmen pried out the first official word from Chevy General Manager Edward N. Cole about a Chevy small car. Chevy has bought tools and dies. "But," Cole stressed, "that does not mean that we will purchase one pound of productive material to run over those tools and dies." Chevy can scrap its plans as late as next summer, if the small-car market cools. Chevy's dropping of the Delray also gives plenty of room to other companies...