Word: sabachthani
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...world, or should have been. How abhorred in our imagination it is! None of the dogs are leashed anymore. It's almost certain that Ronald Reagan is going to be president. And it's going to be a very hard winter, very hard indeed. Ali, Ali, lama sabachthani...
Newman, who has worked on the sequence over the past eight years, subtitled them with Christ's last cry, Lema sabachthani (Aramaic for "My God, my God, why forsake me?"). Says Newman: "This is the outcry of Jesus, the question that has no answer." At the end he has added a 15th painting, Be, II, which breaks the austerity with a bright orange band. He denies that this is a hint of the Resurrection, insists that the series refers to man's agony...
...Evangelist, Hughes Cuenod stood out, his lyric tenor voice reaching every corner of Symphony Hall, although he began to tire in part two. Mack Harrell sang Jesus with great expressiveness; the most tender moment of the whole afternoon as it should have been, was his "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani...
...Holy Sepulcher, erected as most Christians believe on the site of Golgotha (the Place of the Skull). There Christ suffered on the Cross and uttered, in extremis, the words of the Psalmist which echo over the centuries the cry of many a Palestinian Jew today: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?-My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
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