Word: simonizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ZORBA THE GREEK (311 pp.)-NIkos Kazanfzakis-Simon & Schuster...
...most Roman Catholic scholars that she is mentioned elsewhere in the Gospels by other names.* She is, he believes, the "woman in the city" in Luke 7:37, who washes Christ's feet with her tears, and humbly begs forgiveness of her sins at the house of Simon the Pharisee. She is also, by this interpretation, the New Testament's Mary of Bethany, sister of Lazarus...
...Author Bruckberger finds another moral in Mary Magdalene's conversion-she also proved the hollowness of her Pharisee countrymen. "Simon the Pharisee believes himself 'pure,' and thereby he becomes a sinner, impenitent because his sin consists in believing that he is without sin. Mary Magdalene knows herself, recognizes herself, proclaims herself 'impure' and a sinner; this is why she attains the wellspring of all purity. In this humility and [in] this contrition is she justified...
Author Charques' novel is not quite a match for two splendid masterpieces of historical fiction recently produced by other Englishwomen: The Golden Hand, by Edith Simon, and The Man On A Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Yet it has the charm of a hearty good story, and if the style is mildly mock-archaic, it is pretty good in its pretense...
...PRODIGY: MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH (309 pp)-Norbert Wiener-Simon & Schuster...