Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handel's L'Allegro and II Penseroso was written only a short time before the Messiah, but the guileless artifice of his musical imitations of Miltonic imagery, and the prankish innocence of its harmonies sound only distantly related to the Christmas oratorio. For this easy good humor, Miss Addison's most musical and least melancholy voice is eminently suited; not once did she encumber the music with leaden emotions foreign to its spirit, or dirty it with less than perfect phrasing and dynamics. Her coloratura in the incomparable "Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly" was remarkable...
...much a part of the passing show as a quarrel in the market place. The best of these eleven stories tells how Satan ruins the nicest girl in town. Satan contrives that Lise should marry a brilliant, homely scholar who is a secret disciple of Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah who taught that the world must become wholly corrupt before it could be made pure. Lise is corrupted by her husband's obscene sexual instruction. When he finally urges her to sleep with her father's coachman, she agrees. Jealous and remorseful, the husband rushes to the synagogue...
...boss, Boss"). Here is the bighearted, yuk-yuk-yukking Southern mammy (Helen Martin). Here is the corn-pone simpleton (Ruby Dee) who says things like "Indo. I deed." Here is the unlicensed preacher hero, Purlie Victorious Judson (Ossie Davis)-a liar, a braggart, a trickster, and the self-appointed messiah of his race ("Who else is they got?"). And here, too, is the neo-Confederate villain, Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee (Sorrell Booke), a Simon Legree plantation owner equipped (in A.D. 1961) with a bull whip and not-quite-so-unbelievable quips ("You tryin' to get non-violent...
...fasted on Yom Kippur and read selections from the Jewish prayer book. ¶ A Baptist minister, the Rev. Dwight Baker, who was worried about whether to encourage a group of Baptist converts from Judaism in their desire to continue obeying Jewish laws while still believing that Jesus was the Messiah...
Messianists." writes Weiner. "They insisted that they were still Jews, though they believed in Jesus as the Messiah, and some of them still wanted to keep Jewish laws like circumcision and the observance of kosher food. The result of such a development, Baker pointed out worriedly, would be the formation of a Jewish church within the church...