Word: judea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christianity and Judaism have always had more than their share of men of little faith or none. "The fool says in his heart, 'there is no God,' " wrote the Psalmist, implying that there were plenty of such fools to be found in ancient Judea. But it is not faintness of spirit that the churches worry about now: it is doubt and bewilderment assailing committed believers...
...Sydow, who has appeared potent in the films of Ingmar Bergman, plays Christ vividly but all in one key. Though Von Sydow's brooding face can burn with El Greco agony, he seems little more than a cool, compassionate waxwork as he strides from Nazareth to Judea, recruiting disciples and saving souls with an unbroken flow of scriptural quotations...
...their age group. Adolf Hitler is today's Herod, according to Viennese novelist Use Aichinger, and she has undertaken the tremendous responsibility of explaining what children thought about it all. In a thoroughly unbearable novel called Herod's Children, she invokes both recent history and Biblical Judea to belabor the reader's conscience with things that most people prefer to forget...
...Oper signaled its intentions by tacking up a "No One Under 18 Admitted" sign at the box office. With Czech Soprano Jarmila Rudolfova as Salome, Friedrich had a tiger to inspire him and he made the most of it; after researching such questions as the typical nighttime temperature in Judea in A.D. 30 to ensure authenticity, Friedrich decided the production should be, above all, sexy. It was. Backlighting stripped Rudolfova of her seven veils before her dance had even begun, and when it reached its wild climax, she stood among her abandoned robes dressed only in a St. Tropez bikini...
...phonograph throbs the prim soprano voice of TV Actress Marjorie (The Danny Thomas Show) Lord. She's playing Claudia Procula, wife of Pontius Pilate, a down-and-out Roman citizen who in better days was-yes, that's the one-the procurator of Judea. It's some time in the ist century. Claudia is dictating a letter to her friend Fulvia: "I am the wife of the man who condemned Christ Jesus to death. If even here children slink away from us, let me believe that somewhere, some woman will understand-even as she, the mother...