Word: textual
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...sexual-textual revolution comes to Scripture...
...inclusive language," intended to put women on a textual par with men, has long since been accepted in many areas of U.S. publishing, such as school textbooks and children's fables. But its application to the Bible is already stirring an unholy row. The immediate point of contention is the RSV, now being updated by a committee of 25 scholars and translators. Their efforts will have far-reaching importance. With millions of copies sold worldwide since it first appeared in 1952, the RSV is by far the most broadly used Bible translation in modern English...
...archness in the comedy, not a measure of sentimentality in the drama. No one is afraid to grapple with what are usually regarded as Dickens' excesses-of feeling or of outrage -and the result is a shameless but triumphant cavalcade of immediate emotion. There is only one textual alteration, which is minor but telling: a rebalancing of the relationship between Nicholas and the orphan Smike, whom he rescues from an oppressive school in Yorkshire and tries to help. His efforts at this, his successes and his failures, are the core of the play, and the last moments-instead...
...both Shakespeare and epic poetry with a quiet intensity, able with acumen and dry with to expose the heart of the most difficult works. His lectures were models of directed intelligence; as he led students through Virgil, Spenser, Milton and Blake, he avoided the twin perils of near-sighted textual analysis and bland generality, and presented the poets as men whose ideas could instruct us or help us make sense of our own lives...
When Shawcross spoke this week to a crowd at the Kennedy School, a few in the audience nodded off, bored by the author's lengthy textual analysis of White House Years. If Shawcross displayed his wit at times, there was none of the emotion that the crowd had come to see. Shawcross read whole passages, compared them to others and concluded that Kissinger doesn't always tell the truth. Kissinger, his speech told us, is a target it will take more than one Sideshow to uncover. Shawcross realizes this and he goes about his task ponderously, like a coach looking...