Word: crucifixion
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...England Mind. Melville was a born monologuist, which helps Aranson mightily. The novel is replete with presentiments of drama, explicitly written-in stage directions that invaluably guide a fine actor. Thus Ahab's first appearance is heralded by the words: "He stood before us with a crucifixion in his face." Aranson turns that cue into a reality...
...Charlie Schoenau, Bruce Frivatsky, Randy Fredrikson, and I from the Divinity School-were going to join with other seminarians, clergymen, laymen, and religious magazine editors. Together we would demonstrate a particular kind of meaning for Holy Week 1971 in a nation which is carrying out its own kind of crucifixion in Indochina...
...hoped to emphasize the frightening analogy between the policy of this nation today and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago. A crucifixion by imperial soldiers following the rule of distorted law and order in an occupied land. And we would point to the hypocrisy of the religion and politics of those who, like our First Family, "worship" in their Easter finery before a blood-stained flag and an open tomb, not seeing the absolute contradiction between the slaughter of a people thousands of miles away and the celebration of the 2000-year-old crucifixion and resurrection. In this...
...sent a letter to the President assailing his Vietnamization policy, arguing that "changing the color of the corpses does not end the war." The editors of four of the nation's leading Catholic and Protestant journals prepared a joint editorial charging that "American military might is repeating the crucifixion of Christ" in Viet...
Just before an impromptu demonstration at Fort Benning on the second of the three nights Calley spent in the stockade, the Rev. Michael Lord told a rally in the nearby Columbus Memorial Stadium: "There was a crucifixion 2,000 years ago of a man named Jesus Christ. I don't think we need another crucifixion of a man named Rusty Calley." The demonstration passed the stockade, and Calley said later: "The crowd out there really turned me on. I slept better last night...