Word: crucifixions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black evangelism. Some of his more ardent followers adopted stage mannerisms in which they appeared to be seized by God; they tore off their clothes, called for witnesses, collapsed and rose up again. The bespangled James Brown's whirling, convulsive performances have even been analyzed as enactments of the Crucifixion...
This year, the day of the Lord's Resurrection coincides with the anniversary of our people's crucifixion...
...ROBE (ABC, 8-10:30 p.m.). A movie adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 novel. Richard Burton plays Marcellus Gallic, the Roman tribune tormented by guilt about the Crucifixion...
...precipitate violence. Isn't this like condemning the robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery? Isn't this like condemning Jesus because his unique God-consciousness and never-ceasing devotion to God's will precipitated the evil act of the Crucifixion...
...permanency of material things," asks Conner, "when they themselves may not be here tomorrow" His entire output illustrates the question, picturing death in life, the swift passage of beauty as an integral part of growth, with a chilly poetry that haunts the viewer like the ghost of Savonarola. Crucifixion, a 7-ft.-high cross with a black, rotting cadaver, skeined by a cobweb of raveled nylon stockings, comments acridly both on the original sacrifice and its loss of contemporary meaning, while lesser works recall that Conner tried marijuana in the early 1960s...