Word: spadework
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...scholarly spadework that lies behind these new translations has appeared in topflight technical journals - such as the Catholic Biblical Quarterly in the U.S. and Revue Biblique put out by the Ecole Biblique - which are read and respected by scholars of all faiths. Protestant Bible students have high regard for the work of such men as Catholic University's Semitics expert, Monsignor Patrick Skehan, Father David Stanley of the State University of Iowa, Jesuit John McKenzie of Loyola University of Chicago. Says W. D. Davies, professor of Biblical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "I wouldn...
Cone to Crazy Quilt. With such castoffs, Cézanne did the spadework for cubism. He laid the landscape bare to its essential structure, yet cloaked it in a crazy quilt of color like a Jack Frost with spring fever. Unlike his contemporary impressionists, he wanted to show the unchanging longitude and latitude of the earth rather than the fleeting snapshot of the instant. But he left to the later cubists the task of actually depicting the geometry of "the cylinder, the sphere, the cone" of his famous dictum on the elements...
Burns has long been interested in the problems of party organization, both "in a general sense and in a spadework sense." He headed the group last year that produced the Berkshire County plan for reforming the Democratic party. The plan was prepared at the request of Gov. Endicott Peabody '42, who used it as part of his platform...
...only way your reporter could have known how the Curia stood on the council would have been to poll each member, and I am sure he did not do that. I, for one, know that after the Pope announced the council, the Curia cooperated magnificently in doing spadework for its preparation...
...certain that Kennedy came back a better man. The trip, said Reston, "has helped restore the President's confidence, his sense of history and his sense of humor." When word leaked out that the President had toured Europe with an aching back, the result of some ceremonial spadework during his recent visit to Canada (see THE NATION), Reston slyly suggested quite another diagnosis: "The official line in Washington is that President Kennedy hurt his back digging holes for trees in Canada, but there is another theory that he did it straining in disbelief at what he heard from Nikita...