Word: papini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest there are several rather surprising inclusions and omissions. That Giovanni Papini's "Life of Christ" should have attained such heights of popularity in one scant year of existence is as revealing in one way as la the mention of "The Virginian," which is twenty-two years old, to the exclusion of any of Booth Tarkington's work; for example, 'The Conquest of Canaan," or "The Gentleman From Indiana." Dyed in the wool conservatives, however, may be cheered by the fact that neither "Jurgen" nor "Women in Love" were so much as mentioned...
...Messrs. Coolidge, Fall, Denby and Daugherty have largely replaced it for the moment). To look back a bit, there was the Heresy number of the "Advocate." Then "The Fool" with his rather silly Overcoat Hall came to town--at the theatre. Mrs. Fisher rendered a superb translation of Papini's "Life of Christ" and for a time that was in the foreground. The turmoil started by the bishops in Texas found an echo in the college world after the Indianapolis Conference last December, at which it was discovered again that Harvard is a perfectly godless place; and lot of people...
...Giovanni Papini, author of The Life of Christ: "In Florence, I fell from a moving street car, crushed my heel. My condition, though painful, was not considered serious...
...loveless prayer of Savage Christian Papini...
...Prayer. Papini* has sent to America " The Prayer of Papini for the Second Coming of Christ." It is in the manner of a dramatic soliloquy. Thus...