Word: crucifixion
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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...
Greta Zwenge grows up her father's child. For her, quality. She admires, loves, the dignified young composer, Karl Bleicher, who has brought here the Crucifixion theme of his forefathers, yet incomplete. He loves her, with the old reserve...
...Albany she learns her mistake. Brutality. Karl would have wept at her body. The thought fastens upon her until she is able to believe it is Karl with whom she lies, by whom she conceives. Meantime Karl thinks he has learned his mistake. Drinking heavily, he prostitutes his Crucifixion theme, twisting its sonorous measures into hip-hitching, gold-getting jazz tunes, publishes anonymously...
...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...