Word: absalom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today Professor Copeland plans to read the story of the death of Absalom, the sixth and seventh chapters of the Book of Revelations, the third chapter of the General Epistle of James. In addition to these he will read Kipling's "Sons of Martha...
...Harvard men can discover in "Copey's" an- thology, may start off with something from the Bible-nothing dull like all those "begatters" (ST. MATTHEW,) but something with action like the Israelites' conquest of Canaan (JUDGES IV :V), something affecting like David's lament for Absalom (SAMUEL XVIII; XIX), or something portentous out of REVELATION. Or it may begin with so different a thing as Lewis Carroll's "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; " And yet you incessantly stand on your head- "Do you think...
...pebble that burrowed in Goliath's brain; he swaggers and struts before the Lord; calamities confront his house. The music, from a gloating minor, rises steadily with blood-burning cymbals and a strump of drums; David dances, David prances, licks his red-hot lips and glances at Bathsheba. Absalom revolts, is killed. David rides in triumph through Jerusalem to Honegger's march for wind instruments...
...Senator is fond of the Scriptures, devoted to the Holy Writ; and let me say to him he reminds me of a passage, as I consider him in connection with his minority criticisms: 'Deal gently, for my sake, with the young man Absalom...
...pictures, he reads the Bible. His works are hung in the Luxembourg, the Chicago Art Museum, the National Museum of Jerusalem. His thoughts are in the Holy Land. Long has he cherished in his brain the images of the kings and prophets of his people in the old time: Absalom's body, slim as a spear, twisting from the bough on which his dark hair tangled; Moses listening rapt to the voice of God. Unlike that nameless artist who exhibited a blank canvas, declaring that it showed the Israelites Crossing the Red Sea- the Sea pushed back, the Israelites...