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This is not merely another anachronistic attempt to make Jesus a regular fellow, explained the denomination's director of curriculum, the Rev. Robert Koenig of Philadelphia. The flowing robes in which Christ is conventionally pictured were used only for traveling, as a sort of combination overcoat and blanket; archaeological research has shown that workingmen on the job wore short trousers and a short tunic-like shirt. To emphasize Christ's manliness, it had been decided to portray him in shorts, said Dr. Koenig, instead of in the traditional robe, which "suggests a feminine softness...
...ROBE OF HONOUR, by Alexander Cordell (384 pp.; Doubleday; $4.50), is a costume romance, and usually such books have almost no resemblance to legitimate novels. Ordinarily it is possible to judge each sort according to its own standards: Do broadswords and bustlines glitter sufficiently in the one, are reality's fore and backside faithfully drawn in the other? But now and then a writer with the skill of a Robert Graves succeeds in mixing the two styles. Author Cordell once again attempts the trick with some fairly entertaining results, but he is no Graves...
...Wink is a recent widower and an inveterate girl watcher. The girl is Virginia Jackson, a witchingly lovely item who appears on a neighboring Darien. Conn, porch each morning in a shimmering blue robe to serve breakfast to her father, a bar-car contemporary of Wink's. She is just 22. and whether the twain can mate is the fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some...
...century atmosphere. But Director Hillestrom goes further. Pages call the audience to attention with handbells, and all performers dress in genuine period costumes. Leading Drottningholm's orchestra with crackling vitality in last week's II Maestro and II Barbiere, Conductor Bertil Bokstedt was resplendent in the silk robe of an 18th century courtier. Onstage, Sweden's gifted young singers-Soprano Karin Langebo, Tenors Carl-Axel Hallgren, Arne Ohlson, Uno Stjernquist, and Basso Arne Tyren-wore the periwigs fashionable at the time of Queen Lovisa...
...Sacred Heart of Jesus Lumpa Church, the Church of God, the Bantu National Church-have broken away from the mission churches and are making considerable headway. One of the most successful new prophets is one Mister Wilson "Good," known as "Jesus"' to his followers, who wears a white robe and rides an ass instead of Rhodesia's customary bicycle...