Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This probably seems like a strange statement for Bach and Handel are almost in the old favors ite class. However, the popularity of Bach's keyboard music and Handel's Messiah has done as much to shut their other works off from the public as it has to make their names great. For example, of the Bach works which the Boston Symphony has done in the Friday and Saturday series them--two were arrangements of organ works and the other was the first performance in that series of the Sixth Brandcuburg Concerto...
...Nazarene has not one but three viewpoints. Part of it is an account of Jesus' career as seen by the Roman Governor of Jerusalem, the Ciliarch (or Hegemon) Cornelius. Part is told by one Jochanan, pupil of Rabbi Nicodemon, who was sympathetic to Jesus without believing Him the Messiah. By Author Asch's device, the Roman and the Jew were reincarnated in modern Poland, the one a crabbed and Jew-hating scholar, the other a young Jewish translator. Their association results in a third part of the book: a long, emotional fragment of a "lost Gospel" which...
...past five years, Father Divine, always well-heeled with the contributions he receives from the earnings of his followers, has bought $212,000 worth of property on the west bank of the Hudson, north of New York. The dusky messiah became a human spite fence last summer when Howland Spencer, socialite anti-New Dealer, sold Father Divine his-estate at Krum Elbow, across the river from the Roosevelts' Hyde Park. Last week, in a pet, an embattled woman of Newport, R. I. threatened a similar sale...
...mystic woman of the Apocalypse, "clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars," she voiced and wrote reams of prophecies, some of them in doggerel. At 64 Joanna Southcott announced she was pregnant, by the "Lamb," of a Messiah. Ten days after her child was due, she died, leaving her followers a box of writings which, she declared, should be opened in time of national crisis, in the presence of four-and-twenty bishops...
...Messiah. Fundamental Hitler nature is Austrian-mild, appreciative of beauty and art, sentimental, loving display. But long ago his chief underlings went vigorously to work to build a higher and higher pedestal under him. His contacts with common life around him have become more and more remote so that he has come to accept himself as a Messiah. So surrounded is he by adoring millions that his occasional megalomaniac outbursts have become more frequent. He is more autocratic and noncommittal than ever even to his old party leaders. He will tolerate disagreement only on the tiniest of details. His deep...