Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least some portion of the Bible had been published in 1,136 languages and dialects-the complete Bible in 215, the New Testament in 273, one or more Gospels in 648. During the year the society added three new languages: Huichol and Otomi (Mexican Indian) and Combe (Spanish Guinea). But there are more than 1,000 tongues in which no part of the Bible has yet appeared...
...have together sold about two million copies. Thompson's fame is not limited to America; his works are performed all over the world. He has just been asked by a group in Seoul if they may substitute the names of Korean holidays for the corresponding American dates in his Testament of Freedom when they perform it later this year. And Thompson is being asked for new works all the time. His future plans include two more choral compositions, one commissioned by the Worcester music festival, and the other, a setting of a Frost poem, will commemorate the two hundredth anniversary...
Other University scholars included Karl Sax, professor of Botany; Judith N. Shklar, instructor in Government; Herbert J. Spiro '50, assistant professor of Government; Krister Stendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament studies; and Lily R. Taylor, visiting professor of Classics...
...great works of Strauss's youth. At its dress rehearsal the 78-year-old composer said to a friend: "I can do no better." He had done better-in Rosenkavalier and some of the tone poems-but few composers have left behind them a more impressive last operatic testament...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Cary. The late novelist's last rousing testament to freedom as creative action, proper or improper...