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...Sanhedrin would have been busy with ritual preparations for the feast. Still, if they had met, under Jewish law any condemnation would have required the sworn testimony of at least two trustworthy witnesses. Even according to the Gospels, none could be found. Why, then, did the Jewish authorities summon Jesus? Their motive, Cohn believes, may well have been a desire to recoup their waning popular prestige by saving a prophetic teacher beloved by the masses of Jerusalem. In Cohn's reconstruction of the events, the Sanhedrin first examined witnesses not to condemn Christ but to find men who would...
...television drama by Nicholas E. Baehr, The Incident is a taut, disturbing drama that tries to clarify why men fail to help each other in times of stress and danger. Unquestionably, the passengers could have saved themselves; any one of them might have got off to summon help before the thugs thought to block the doors, or at least yanked the emergency cord. Nobody does, because the paralysis of fear has linked them all. The eventual resolution is placed in the hands of the one person least caught up in the life of the jungle of cities-the crippled Oklahoma...
...audio-oriented type who can summon up his French accent and repeat the title aloud several times will be quick to grasp the fact that this slim and learned volume is nothing more than Mother Goose rhymes. The odd effect is created by arranging French words to form homonymic approximations of the familiar English rhymes; the literal translation is always something wildly nonsensical. Thus "Jack and Jill...
...some. Even the tensile strength of Derek Goldby's direction cannot keep segments of the drama from dialogyness. There is nothing logy about Brian Murray and John Wood in the taxing title roles. Every shifting breeze of the play's moods crosses their faces: they can summon up anxiety, false courage, utter bafflement, and honest fear with a flick of the lip, or a twist of the torso. They give the play's mind a body, and make R. and G. an evening for the playgoer who seeks not to forget but to know himself...
...wonder is that Nelly Sachs could summon up a poetic vision that resolutely exorcised bitterness...