Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long (698 pages) The Nazarene, November Book-of-the-Month.* As full of Hebraic fervor, and often as mournful, as a synagogue chant-it was written in Yiddish-The Nazarene brings ancient Palestine to life, offers the most extraordinary evocation of Jesus since Renan's. Yet Author Asch's viewpoint is so objective it should not offend Christian sensibilities...
...three viewpoints. Part of it is an account of Jesus' career as seen by the Roman Governor of Jerusalem, the Ciliarch (or Hegemon) Cornelius. Part is told by one Jochanan, pupil of Rabbi Nicodemon, who was sympathetic to Jesus without believing Him the Messiah. By Author Asch's device, the Roman and the Jew were reincarnated in modern Poland, the one a crabbed and Jew-hating scholar, the other a young Jewish translator. Their association results in a third part of the book: a long, emotional fragment of a "lost Gospel" which the scholar, without revealing...
Brill gained notoriety last year as the host to several score undergraduates at a series of "Afternoons for Tannin Tipplers." Chief feature of the teas was a tirade against J. P. Marquand '14, who, as author of the best-selling novel, "Wickford Point," which intimately sketched "The Brills," a decadent New England family, was the arch-enemy of the Sophomore's parents and grand-parents...
...call to the Traveler Book Fair office revealed that a "red haired Harvard" had called on Mr. Marquand and had said he would wait when he was told that the author would not be in Boston until Tuesday. It was not revealed where he was waiting...
...range of interest of the essays which make up this book is as great as the range of the plays themselves, whose subject is after all the whole world. One of the finest is the treatment of "The Tempest," of which its author says, "'The Tempest' does bind up in final form a host of themes with which its author has been concerned." What the play does for the Shakespearean canon, this essay does for the book which it brings to a lovely and harmonious close...