Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Davis, best known of the three lawyers currently working for Caryl Chessman, was still full of plans for trying to save him, including a new appeal based on the claim that Chessman's twelve years under sentence of death constitute "cruel and unusual punishments," in violation of the...
Is the Christian Passion play at Oberammergau unChristian? In the March issue of the Jewish monthly Commentary, Robert Gorham Davis, professor of English at Columbia University, declares that it is. Writes Davis, a Unitarian: "In a period of reviving antiSemitism, brought finally to public attention by the defacing of synagogues...
Taste of the Times. Critic Davis not only condemns the play itself, but also questions the words on which it is based-notably the words St. Matthew attributed to the Jews: "His blood be on us, and on our children." This attitude, says Davis, "has been taken as warrant, through...
No More Hatred. If Critic Davis has to probe history to attack the play itself, he does not have to go so far to fault the performers. Tradition has it that all of the performers should lead exemplary lives. With the present cast, including Christ and Judas, this is notably...
Though Director Lang heatedly dismisses all allegations of anti-Semitism in his play, significant changes have been made in the text. The abbot of a Benedictine monastery near Oberammergau scrutinized the text for offensive lines long before Davis' article appeared, rewrote ten passages. For example, in the old version...