Word: dolorosa
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...this "musical adaptation of the Gospel According to St. Matthew," which comes complete with theological endorsement by none other than Harvey Cox. Godspell's Christ is part clown, part mime, and an all-around song-and-dance man. His is not to tread the weary way of the Via Dolorosa but to hoof instead down the memory lane of Tin Pan Alley...
...father looks much like Churchill and he smokes a white cigar, but the black wings on his shoulders signify that he is the Angel of Death. The mother, or Grey Lady, is the mater dolorosa, a woman of sorrowing countenance, possibly the mother of Christ; her huge supplicating hands resemble those of a pietà. She sends her son off to war and we feel that she knows he will be killed. A single glass tear slowly descends her right cheek...
...likely-to-get-through-the-eye-of-a-needle-tax." He serves delicious remarks on the moon shot with "our three Astrobards reading Bible poetry to Sabbatarian earthlings," rips into the reptilian dowagers and Saharian financiers who run the orchestras. We hear of a recent concert tour-"a via dolorosa "-which took him (against his will?) to Miami, where "everyone looked like he was fried in butter," and Hawaii, where everyone was addicted to pineapples. He had to bribe a waiter to keep him from dumping the ananas ("the French sounds like a Biblical sin") onto the spaghetti...
...started deliberately-and by an Israeli. Hundreds of Arabs rushed to the still-burning mosque, threatening firemen who were trying to control the blaze and shouting "Nasser! Nass-er!" When Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan arrived on the scene, he was jeered. An Arab mob coursed down the Via Dolorosa-the path Jesus took to the Crucifixion-shouting "Death to Israel!" Police blocked them at the fifth Station of the Cross...
Pious Legend. For all the veneration that Jerusalem's holy places command, the sacredness of many of them is based more on pious legend than historical proof. The stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa-marking Christ's path to His crucifixion-begin near the site of the Temple in accordance with medieval tradition. Most Biblical scholars, nonetheless, now believe that Jesus' death march began on the other side of the Old City, near the Jaffa Gate. Many of the churches marking the shrines, moreover, have been rebuilt so often that they have tenuous claims...