Word: jude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famed question has long been a poser to Biblical scholars. Roman Catholic teaching holds that Mary was perpetually a virgin, and there is an additional Roman Catholic tradition that Joseph was perpetually chaste. If so, who were Jesus' "brothers," named (together with unspecified "sisters") as James, Joseph, Jude and Simon...
...does not work. We get too many hard knocks . . . A failure to get through The Monastery robbed me of Scott for half a lifetime. Imagine the fate of the man first introduced to Shakespeare through Troilus and Cressida, to Trollope through He Knew He Was Right, to Hardy through Jude the Obscure or to Flaubert through Bouvard et Pecuchet . . . Tolstoy is the only author I know whose novels and major stories can be read in any order without deterrence...
...hero is a peddler-limner named Jude. Jude spends his winters painting in the figures of men and women on canvases but leaving the faces blank. When spring comes, he saddles his cart, piles in the canvases and hits up the New England towns for people who will pay $3 to $5 to have the blank spots filled in with their "likenesses." Rainbow on the Road covers one season's adventures on Jude's circuit as told in flashback by a 14-year-old boy who goes with...
...souped-up standards of the contemporary historical novel, things are pretty tame. Jude saves a young-girl from making a fool of herself over an old man by doing her portrait as if she had drowned herself, like the old man's previous young wife; Jude flirts gingerly with sex when he meets a blowsy, redheaded tavern mis tress whose face just fits the Rubens-like nude canvas which he almost never dis plays. Closest he comes to trouble is when a sheriff mistakenly nabs him as Ruby Lambkin, a highwayman whose legendary misdeeds run a counterpoint through...
...JUDE P. DOUGHERTY Washington...