Word: herod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were savage riots in January, and there may be more violence at any moment, but for the 800-odd Christian monks, priests, ministers and missionaries who care for Christianity's holy places in the Old City, time passes in centuries. "Just as Herod's men in the time of Our Lord used to buy up vegetables here and send them to Rome," said an Irish priest last week, "so the Americans in the oilfields down in Saudi Arabia send lorries today to buy up our food at prices we can't match...
...paintings, probably because, as he once wrote of his famous painting Three Judges: "What had seemed to me so simple pictorially has been thought a curious enigma." Guessing who the old king might be, a former director of the Carnegie Institute says: "He may be a David, a Herod or a Sennacherib, for he is an epitome of Oriental magnificence." Said another critic: "It is as though the whole sorrow of mankind were concentrated on the old king." Whoever the king, he speaks in many languages to many willing subjects. Since the Carnegie acquired the painting 15 years...
Soprano Goltz whirled, rolled and jumped across the stage as if she were trying to revive her father's old act. As Herod's stepdaughter, she covered more mileage on foot, belly and back than any Salome in memory. But she gave an overpowering impression of the willful, depraved teenager, from her disheveled entrance to her final kisses on the lips of John the Baptist's severed head. Soprano Goltz (a strikingly versatile singer with a repertory of 116 roles, ranging from Musetta to Elektra) is most famous for her appearances in Richard Strauss's operas...
Cullmann has an easy time tracing the movements of Peter until he left Herod's prison in Jerusalem to go, as The Acts of the Apostles unhelpfully has it, "to another place." Catholics say that his final destination was indubitably Rome. They add that St. Peter took the leadership of the church with him, and that he was crucified there during the persecutions of Nero. In 1951, in fact, Pope Pius XII announced that the site of Peter's grave had been definitely located during excavations beneath St. Peter...
...would destroy much of the pleasure in the film to go on identifying the contemporary figures involved. Herod, the king, and Eliza, the prophet, should be no puzzle to the informed student...