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As the architect of her own literary monument, Katherine Anne Porter is the most sparing of designers. The graceful, towering spire of her reputation, unwavering after three decades, rests on three volumes containing but 22 long and short stories-Flowering Judas (1930), Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), The Leaning Tower...
Elizabeth Taylor has been signed on as Mary Magdalene. Rumors have Marlon Brando as Judas, Spencer Tracy as Pontius Pilate. But last week Director George Stevens released the biggest casting news of the Hollywood year: Swedish Actor Max von Sydow, 31, has been chosen to play Jesus Christ in The...
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...
Rosenberg excavates two late eighteenth century novels, Lewis' The Monk and Godwin's St. Leon, which portray the isolated Jew as black magician, and traces their lineage from Cartaphilus to DuMaurier's Svengali. In Trilby "the myths of Judas and of Cartaphilus met in the figure of a Victorian bogey...
Those who vote no, cried Charles de Gaulle, "refuse to have the problem of Algeria ever resolved by France. To abstain is to choose impotence for France." But to vote yes "is to want France to win in Algeria, for Algeria, with Algeria, in the cause of peace and reason...