Word: crucifixions
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GOLGOTHA, Apr. 9, A.D. 30.-This bleak suburb of Jerusalem, scene of the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth last Friday, became the center of excited interest today. . . . Hordes of spectators, many of whom were present at the death of him who claimed to be the Jews' Messiah, roved curiously over Calvary Hill. They had come to view the wreckage left by the disastrous earthquakethat accompanied the prophet's last hours...
...unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their paintings for the Virginia Museum...
...only scholars but novelists have been gripped by His story. Ernest Renan wrote a prettified Life of Christ which was almost fiction. Giovanni Papini, on & off a Roman Catholic, lavished Latin enthusiasm on Jesus. In The Brook Kerith, George Moore, in cadenced prose, had Jesus survive the crucifixion to spend the rest of a long life in retirement...
Ahead of him, in the swirling, unpredictable future, loomed the mirage of the job that goes with the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W., in Washington, the job he once described: "Why anybody should want to shoulder that crucifixion down the street I don't know...
...novel begins with the triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, ends the following Saturday when Judas has hanged himself after Christ's crucifixion. Like others who retell the Gospel narrative, Author Linklater is seldom as vivid as the original, is often unconvincing when he strays from...