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...other members of that committee are Emilie M. Dressaire and Sarah A. Carter of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Liza K. C. Ching of the Kennedy School, Kerith J. Conron of the School of Public Health, Gillian L. Fell of the Medical School, Christopher C. Fonzone of the Law School, Mark J. McInroy of the Divinity School, Owen Patrick of the Business School, Hanna B. Rodriguez-Farrar of the Graduate School of Education, and Christopher White of the Design School...
...Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
Among countless critical and biographical studies of Jesus, about a dozen are standard today, either for scholarship or popular appeal. Kagawa's book is not likely to displace any of the dozen. Nor does it rank in craftsmanship with George Moore's fanciful The Brook Kerith (which had Jesus survive the Crucifixion, pass a long life in retirement) or with Sholem Asch's best-seller of 1939, The Nazarene (which among other things presented a supposed "gospel" written by Judas). But Behold the Man is vivid, emotional, at times almost cinematic in its blood-&-thunders. Like...
...contains some 2,000 biographies and critical studies of Him.† Not only scholars but novelists have been gripped by His story. Ernest Renan wrote a prettified Life of Christ which was almost fiction. Giovanni Papini, on & off a Roman Catholic, lavished Latin enthusiasm on Jesus. In The Brook Kerith, George Moore, in cadenced prose, had Jesus survive the crucifixion to spend the rest of a long life in retirement...
...trick of phrase, every contemporary allusion that might make it obscure or tedious in the future." Thus followed his use of the Biblical "thee" and "thou" and his cultivation of the flowing and repetitive simplicity of oral narrative. The care that Moore lavished on every sentence in "The Brook Kerith" and "Heloise and Abelard" will excite the wonder of the uninitiated. Mr. Morgan's analysis of the results of this superhuman care is indeed subtle and illuminating. Yet even after such an analysis it is hard to see a revolution in fiction in the rhythms, the repetitions, and the intricate...