Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irreverent piece, based on the life of Jesus and including such spoofs as "Everything's Coming Up Moses", was performed in the Dunster Dining Hall. The audiences and the Crimson reviewer loved it, but some people on campus were outraged. One Jesuit priest wrote a letter to the Crimson comparing Durang's work to "a pig trampling in a sanctuary...
...Benson, has fallen into adultery with a slinky local deputy who seduces him with wine. No God-fearing person--indeed no survivor--drinks liquor in these novels; the temptress has no potion that can protect her when she meets the dragon. But powered by a last-minute conversion to Jesus, Benson wrestles the beast and eventually kills...
...allowed himself to be led into Bristol on a horse while women threw garments before him and called him Jesus," Damrosch says...
Damrosch's book, soon to be published, is called The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus and explores Naylor's writings, which are archived in Harvard's Houghton Library...
...client needed an illustration of Freud (once the most popular request) or Jesus (less so) or perhaps Washington's wooden dentures, Bettmann ferreted it out of his filing cabinets. Only rarely did he disappoint, as when a pasta manufacturer wanted a drawing of Jefferson eating spaghetti. (The Archives for years offered a reward of $1,000 for an illustration of the Earl of Sandwich eating a sandwich...