Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the New Yorker already entrenched as the contemporary theatre's most prolific source of material for successful comedy, behold "Junior Miss," starring Sally Benson's Graves family, and most particularly their thirteen-year-old Judy. Uncle Max Gordon has picked another winner this time, for here is the most continually rollicking play of the Boston season--"laff-riot" being the term which springs to mind...
...Behold! Her bosom and half her side-A sight to dream...
Japan's No. 1 Christian has written a novel about the life of Jesus. Author is soft-faced, reedy-voiced, myopic Toyohiko Kagawa, who is also Japan's No. 1 writer, turns out quantities of poems, tracts, devotional books, novels on economic and agrarian subjects. Behold the Man (Harper; $2.50) is his most ambitious work...
...rank in craftsmanship with George Moore's fanciful The Brook Kerith (which had Jesus survive the Crucifixion, pass a long life in retirement) or with Sholem Asch's best-seller of 1939, The Nazarene (which among other things presented a supposed "gospel" written by Judas). But Behold the Man is vivid, emotional, at times almost cinematic in its blood-&-thunders. Like the works of Upton Sinclair, it may find a wide, unsophisticated readership in other tongues as well as English...
...Excerpt from the "bless" prayer: "O Lord, our heavenly Father, the high and mighty Ruler of the universe, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee, with thy favor to behold and bless thy servant THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and all others in authority...