Word: bethlehem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Word became flesh," says John's Gospel of the incarnate Christ of Bethlehem. In Christmas sermons before some 75 million Americans this week, words about Christ will become flesh in the person of the preacher. Through their strange and marvelous craft, Christianity has been transmitted and reshaped for every age since Christ himself went "preaching the Gospel of the kingdom...
...study and a similar study conducted by the College Placement Council in Bethlehem, Pa, showed that the greatest demand exists for graduates with degrees in engineering, the natural sciences, mathematics, and other technical areas...
Happy or not, the crackpots soon unleashed the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, the atomic bomb. Ever since, Los Alamos, like Bethlehem in Judea, has been a place difficult to visit in a neutral frame of mind. Los Alamos is part rich, overachieving exurb beset by worldly goods and ills familiar all over the U.S., but raised to the nth power; part lonely company town. But, above all, it is an intellectual hothouse not quite like any other...
...have to listen carefully to get the Jesus symbolism, but it's there. "Ave Maria" is a highly veiled reference to Mary. "The Day That Love Began" refers to a manger in Bethlehem that sounds suspiciously like the one Jesus rented for his debut. And there are angels doing background vocals like so many divine Pips. Wonder's own cuts at the beginning and end are good. The rest of the album sucks...
...Birth of the Messiah by Raymond E. Brown (Doubleday, 1977). A top Catholic New Testament expert's close analysis of the story of Jesus' birth in Matthew and Luke, with some surprises, e.g., he doubts Jesus was born in Bethlehem...