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...Arrogant, upwardly mobile, narrow-minded, pseudo-intellectuals," says Stu, who comes to the Pit to spread the word of Jesus Christ...
...than one leader) of the Qumran sect was known as the Teacher of Righteousness. Years ago, some scholars theorized that Jesus might have been that teacher, but the idea is seen as untenable, in part because the writings so clearly reflect the Jewish situation in the second century before Christ. Eisenman contends that the later Qumran scrolls were written by a messianic movement that blended into early Christianity. He thinks the teacher was James, the New Testament "brother of Jesus" and martyred leader of the Jerusalem church. James' Qumran faction, says Eisenman, was "aggressive, apocalyptic, nationalist, messianic and violent. Very...
...title says, On the Threshold of Liberty. Some of Magritte's images have taken on, with time, a truly prophetic aura. One of these is Eternity (1935). Three pedestals in a museum, with a red rope stretched in front of them. On the left one, a medieval head of Christ. On the right, a head of Dante. In the center, a block of butter. A jab at the contented Belgian stomach, 60 years ago; but today you can't help thinking of the lumps of fat by Joseph Beuys that are enshrined in the world's museums, as though Magritte...
...Sound of Music; in 1961, Camelot. Even in 1964, the year the Beatles cued kids to buy their pop in long form as well as in singles, Hello, Dolly! was the No. 3 seller. Hair topped all 1969 LPs; the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice Jesus Christ Superstar (technically not an original cast album, since the piece was recorded before it was staged) was No. 1 in 1971. And that was it. No show, including the later Lloyd Webber perennials, has since come near the top of the U.S. pops...
Such sentiments are a long way from the conciliatory goals of the United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, where Souljah, then known as Lisa Williamson, worked for a time before making her detour into rap. Born poor in the Bronx, she has made a determined effort to educate herself, reading black-history books and studying at Cornell and Rutgers. In her previous incarnation, she performed good works like founding a summer camp for inner-city children. Those are accomplishments for which Souljah, by most accounts a young woman with the interests of the black community at heart...