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...York's Guggenheim Museum-provides a dismaying lesson in how critical fashions change. It is not very long since No-land's work, along with the stains of Morris Louis and the peach-bloom surfaces of Jules Olitski, was assigned an authority close to that of Holy Writ. This, formalist criticism said over and over again in the '60s, is the way painting must go: it is the inevitable future...
...Church. She obtained the services of a deprogrammer from Ohio and got Storey to fly out with her to California. They were hoping that Storey would arrange a meeting outside the farm with her friends, so that they could put them through deprogramming. Their mother had gotten a legal writ giving her custody of her children for thirty days. They ended up meeting twice in Boonesville, however, since neither of the girls would consent to meet outside the farm. Storey said, "We would be talking to them, in philosophical discussions, and no matter what was said, they always came...
...American housewives today, including those who may sneer at her preachings as silly. Some of those problems are as old as the Fall-problems of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Others spring from the new writ that women should find work and fulfillment outside the traditional confines of the home. Marabel Morgan, by contrast, quotes St. Paul's declaration (Ephesians 6:21): "Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord." Others may have offered more elegantly reasoned defenses of American family life-as does Arlene Rossen Cardozo in her new book, Woman at Home; still others may be attempting...
With these and similar wordings (see box), the Good News Bible, published this week by the American Bible Society, turns Holy Writ into modern, everyday English. In doing so, the new translation continues one of the great success stories in publishing history. Until the late 1950s, the Bible Society limited itself to distributing low-cost editions of traditional translations. Then it decided to prepare its own Bible, beginning with a New Testament, aimed at roughly a high school reading level...
...start, Mason committed to paper the basic principles of English law: the right to trial by jury, to be secure at home from unreasonable search and seizure, the writ of habeas corpus, etc. But he also added new notions. For one, that "the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments." For another, that "all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience." Mason had originally proposed only the "toleration" of different religious views; it was young James Madison...