Word: jeremiahs
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Though indifferent to religion, Henriques is finally done in through his regard for a gentle religion teacher. Jeremiah Hirsch endures his fate better than most because he believes that even in Westerbork he walks with God. He reads his Bible, forces hatred from his heart and mind, achieves the near-impossible article of faith that even the Nazis are his brothers. Cynically at work saving his own skin, Henriques is yet fascinated by Hirsch's stubborn spiritual strength. On the day Hirsch and his family are led to the train, all the suppressed guilt in Henriques boils...
...generally noticed in the U.S. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) was considered by most critics "an experimental film," but it has since served serious moviemakers as an invaluable primer on the uses of the closeup. Day of Wrath (1948) was a tenebrous expatiation on the theme of Jeremiah ("The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked"), and it roused Broadway critics to such a passion of love-hate that it ran for 13 weeks at a Manhattan art theater...
...heard the other day, as we recall it was one of those slightly windy fall days when the whole natural process is somewhat uncertain--that folk music was dead. The oral tradition, our Jeremiah confided, was no more. And the ubiquitous tape recorders of the Lomax clan have succeeded only in attracting the curious and such aesthetes as might otherwise "mourn the Medieval grace of iron clothing...
...superb "Shofar Prayer." Other awards went to William Georgenes, Jane Stouffer and Donald Kelley, the last outstanding for his "Priscilla." In sculpture, first prize went to Harold Tovish's good "Head of a Girl," with honorable mention to William Martin's striking "Stalking Bird." I liked George Aaron's "Jeremiah" and Peter Abate's "Youth and His Dreams" most...
...Alternating with Laredo's Abraham Kazen Jr., 38, Freshman Senator Gonzalez (who perfected his speech as a child by practicing with pebbles in his mouth, "like Demosthenes") ranged the course of world history and literature to flesh out his marathon talk. Quoting hugely from Herodotus, the Prophet Jeremiah, John Donne and many another classic, he dazzled his colleagues -and almost wore them down-with his panegyric on freedom and on the crucial need for racial equality...