Word: testament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long ago, a movie queen shocked even the godless with her "God is a living doll." Now, a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church comes out with, "Television is a blessing . . . Radio is like the Old Testament . . . television is like the New Testament, [both] being the most spiritual symbols of truth," etc. What trash coming from the spiritual guide of millions of faithful! Let Hollywood be the heaven for this television star...
...order. Yet she herself burns with a passion for the Absolute, and the Hellenic "nothing in excess" is precisely the law she could not live by. Her grandeur, as well as her absurdity, it has been pointed out, is that she shares the apocalyptic vision of the Old Testament prophets with their incandescent fervor and their rare and terrible purity. Simone Weil embarrasses, as a saint embarrasses, by her childlike refusal to deviate from her personal vision of the pure, the good, and the godly, wherever they might lead. "It's a lucky thing...
Hollywood's big Biblical bonanza has a new claimant: 20th Century-Fox will epicram the New Testament into The Greatest Story Ever Told. To supervise this adaptation of the late Fulton Oursler's adaptation of the Gospels, no fewer than twelve religious advisers will be hired, including a Greek Orthodox, announced 20th Century's president, Greek Orthodox Spyros P. Skouras. And to fill the part of Jesus, a search is on for a handsome theological student who will promise to return to his studies after completing the movie assignment. Reported Variety: "Top thesps will be engaged...
...recent growth of Christian Biblical criticism has not helped allay misunderstanding. Moslem scholars see in it only proof that the Christian scriptures are unreliable. The accounts of the Evangelists are, in the Moslem mind, confirmation that the New Testament does not share the validity of the Koran, which was revealed to Mohammed alone. "The assumption is immediate," says Author Cragg. "that because there are four, none of them is valid...
...Author Adele Wiseman, currently a social worker in Britain, grapples with darker mysteries - of a man's relationship with his son, of his duty to and faith in his God - than she has yet power to illuminate. For much of the book, Abraham strides forward with Old Testament credibility. But toward the novel's end, tragedy bows to contrivance which teeters on the brink of absurdity; the writing turns from archaic simplicity to perfervid pleading. Unfortunately for her purpose, the characters who seem most alive are the women : the silly, gabbling, pitiable gossip, Mrs. Plopler, and the bereft...