Word: herod
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Dominican Bruckberger, basing his deductions on a study of early Christian history as well as the Bible, goes further than this. His reconstructed Mary Magdalene was a woman of wealth and beauty, and one of the ornaments of King Herod's court. Although a Jewess, she was Hellenized, and, like many among the upper classes in Palestine, considered herself as belonging to the rich but dying culture of Plato's Greece...
...tries-with small success-to set the historical record straight on the story of Salome. According to the Biblical version, Princess Salome of Galilee was a willing accomplice in the beheading of John the Baptist because of his preachings against her adulterous mother, Queen Herodias and her stepfather, King Herod. As the movie has it: Salome (Rita Hayworth) was just a nice, healthy girl over whom men lost their heads-figuratively rather than literally. And she danced her famous dance of the seven veils not to lure Herod into serving up the Prophet's head on a platter...
Doubtful as history, Salome is just as dubious as screen entertainment. A turgid multimillion-dollar blend of sex, spectacle and religion, it has been directed with a ponderous touch by William Dieterle. Chewing at the Technicolor scenery are Charles Laughton as a fat, licentious Herod, Judith Anderson as an evilly scheming Herodias, Alan Badel as a weirdly wild-eyed John the Baptist, and Stewart Granger as an intrepid Roman commander. Actress Hayworth does her best in the dance of the seven veils. With choreography by Valerie Bettis, Rita is the very picture of a Galilean glamour girl...
Walter C. Carrington '52 will give "A Letter to the President," by Arthur B. Spingarn and Lilly P. Wright. Theodore L. Gershuny '54 will give selections from George Bernard Shaw's "The Apple Cart," James M. Harkless '52 will present "The Speech of Herod," from W. H. Auden's "The Massacre of the Innocepts." Burton G. Malkiel '53 will give Cassius' speech to Brutus from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar...
Fitzhugh Granger, Manager of Foreign Operation Merchandizing Services for the International Harvester Company continued the discussion by agreeing with Herod saying that in the field of foreign sales there are openings in every phase of the exporting business abroad...