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...merveillous desir his wyf t'assaye." Babe, ingeniously, has translated this "lust" or "desir" into Walter's elaborate obsession with a pageant he is composing. We do not learn much about the pageant except that it presumably celebrates some ideal of constancy and that it involves the character of Herod, but we do know that it eventually becomes a vision of great power and dignity for Walter, ordering all this life and occupying "al his thoght." In the name of this vision, which other characters mistake for mere whim, he performs his abominable deceptions; in the name of some primitive...
...daughter only three months ago, does not yet feel "back in bikini form"), she still gave the staid Staatsoper audience a grinding, squirming portrayal of disheveled depravity that it would not soon forget. "After all," explained she after eight curtain calls, "the belly dance is Oriental and very old; Herod wasn't interested in the minuet...
...concert during Israel's first Music Festival was accurate-but discouraged no one. Armed with cushions and parasols, 1,200 Israelis pushed through two passageways into the ancient, open-air theater amid the ghostly remains of Caesarea, chief port of Rome's eastern colonies, built by Herod the Great ten years before the birth of Christ. Behind the orchestra pit lay cracked columns and stonework that bore witness to the far reach of the Roman Empire: pink granite from Egypt, creamy marble from Greece and Asia. The crumbling limestone seats, only recently excavated by Italian archaelogists, were liberally...
...Bite on Boldly." Violence is vivid in the mysteries; Herod's soldiers slaughter three infants onstage, and even modern audiences blanch at green-faced, gloating Satan hissing among the writhing sinners before pitchforking them through the fanged jaws of Hell. Biblical characters have a buttonholing immediacy, like doddering, officious Noah, who groans...
Rosenberg traces the myth of the Jew to its Biblical origins. "It dates back at least to Herod, the slayer of children and aspiring Christ killer in disguise ('and when you have found him, bring me word, that I may also come and worship him'); to Judas, the original businessman with the contract in the pocket; and to the anonymous vulgar Jewish farceur who, in answer to Christ's 'Eli', eh' forced a reed filled with vinegar between His lips." The twin masks of the Jew-mutilator and usurer thus had Biblical sanction "at a time when literature flourished under...