Word: crucifixions
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...date of the Crucifixion can now be fixed as April...
...woman is attached as to her own soul. The American narrator identifies the bird now with the husband, now with the wife, shows it as the intense embodiment of captive freedom, of the artist's urge, of love. By the time the day is over, the mutual crucifixion of the Irish marriage is thoroughly clear; the Irishman has made two abject, ambiguous attempts at murder; and Glenway Wescott has wrung a little more than the last drop of slantwise symbolism from the actions and the lore of the bird...
...conscience. When Storm Troopers move into the drowsy little village of Altdorf to give it some political training, Pastor Hall (Wilfrid Lawson) tries hard to understand what the new gospel is about. What happens when he does, and winds up in a concentration camp, is uncomfortably close to modern crucifixion. Released by his friends, Pastor Hall is about to escape when across the street he hears the bells of his old church, knows that he must walk back to his pulpit once more. The subject of the last sermon which he delivers, while his enemies wait outside the church...
Vandenberg. Last week, in a nation reconsidering Isolationism, Isolationist Arthur Vandenberg, to his infinite private relief, was politically nowhere. Michigan's senior Senator has long regarded the Presidency as a "crucifixion," and last week there appeared to be no national desire thus to crucify the big Michigander...
...view which are probably the results of this Gothic-Renaissance mixture dominating the cultural atmosphere within which Durer lived. There is a strange blend of the real and the symbolic in this particular picture. The figure of the agonized Christ, with hands and feet still showing the marks of crucifixion, is done in a forceful, brutal way, yet the entire group of figures, of which Christ is the foremost, is depicted by the artist as floating in the heavens upon a small field of clouds. The natural and the super natural are joined and with case, as in many...