Word: crucifixion
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...called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days. Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little or impudent. He wrote "The Ballad of the Goodly Fere," an account of the Crucifixion by Simon Zelotes, hard-bitten mariner. The Goodly Fere bids his captors let his comrades go, "Or I'll see ye damned" says...
Nothing else will account for Brother Dillwyn's recent book, that delicate crucifixion and beatification of mediocrity, Smith Everlasting (TIME, Oct. 18). Nothing else will account for this new book of Sister Anne's which is a duplicate of Brother Dillwyn's with just a few more hamperfuls of old-time clothes strewn in, a few more pantryfuls of homemade soups, salads, desserts, cakes, cookies and whipped cream...
...Temperamentally, through all the crucifixion of the months that preceded the tragedy of the murder of her husband and Mrs. Mills, this woman's bitter, salty tears must have flowed inward, drenching the wounds in her heart and soul...
...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...