Word: crucifixion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Immortal Thief originates in the New Testament account of the crucifixion. In Walter Hampden, innately a scholar and a gentleman, it is difficult to see a tigerish outlaw of harsh Jerusalem. Yet there he is, leaping to good, plunging into evil, denying the gods, always thinking of them, a strange duality of ruthless passion and grand sacrifice. He breaks a fellow thief's legs, cuts off the hand of another, supposedly traitorous. To atone for his cruelty, he sacrifices himself to save a girl, unloved, who adores him. Salvation comes at the end in a fiercely realistic crucifixion tableau...
...Fifteenth century, roles were cast with a nice eye to harmony between the part itself and the trade of the man who was to play it. Plasterers created the world, shipwrights built the Ark, the chandlers were the Shepherds who carried the Star, butchers assisted in the Crucifixion. Christ, in one French play, had to recite 4,000 verses; in 1437 at Metz, during the Crucifixion scene, both Judas and Christ were prostrated by emotional strain. But of all the many Miracle plays, so rigorously acted, Everyman alone has a plot that holds together. "Inasmuch as the play represents...
Fridays for Catholics and Anglicans are days of abstinence through the year, for pious folk would keep in perpetual grief for the crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday. Arid yet in certain years one Friday becomes a day of joy of feasting-the Friday on which Christmas falls, as this year. The Nativity blots out the shadow of death; birth is more important than death...
Among the most valuable prints in the collection is a remarkable impression of the Small Crucifixion by Durer, the gift of Miss Ellen Bullard. The Fogg Museum impression is a most unusual example of Durer's work...
...baker dies, true to a fanaticism for cremation. His deathbed plea cleanses Karl and he pushes the Crucifixion to an immense conclusion, only to have it denounced as a plagiarism on the day's jazz. Then more irony, the War?and Karl home after it with the sorrows of Germany in his pale face, needing convalescence like the world...