Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backdoor screen: a bearded, long-haired man with a halo, looking east toward a fig tree in the yard. It was, she was certain, Jesus Christ. Neighbors spread the word, and since then, more than 50,000 curious visitors have descended on the Bass home to share her vision...
...Tampering. The tide of visitors keeps a constant daily crowd of 300 to 500 people on hand from dawn until late evening, reducing the Bass's backyard to dust and littering it with Polaroid film waste. Mrs. Bass, though, rejoices that the vision has brought her 78-year-old husband back to churchgoing. She is undisturbed by the variety of reported visions ("Everyone's seeing what they need") and by the relic hunters who tore her fig tree apart for souvenirs and crushed what was left of it. ("Maybe the Lord intended for them to take it home...
...laced with blues and aquamarines. Many of the works done in this later style have cracked and flaked. But some few among them-notably the serenely moonlit Abraham's Oak -still show how Tanner could take a simple Biblical tale and use it to inspire a unique poetic vision...
Some theologians feel that such vehement denunciation of white Christians can only lead to a narrowly parochial vision at a time when the need is for wider understanding. As Dr. Rosemary Ruether of Howard University's School of Religion recently wrote in America, an authentic black theology "would understand the genus 'man' as the universal within which it places its own celebration of black humanity. In that form it would be a catholic theology, a theology with universal validity, and not a form of racism...
...performed at its world premiere by the venturesome Hamburg State Opera, the three-act music-drama is a lurid vision of hell on earth. Horror builds to a crescendo as sacral scenes of church and cloister are followed by wild orgies of the possessed nuns and a ludicrous exorcising ceremony in which the crazed sisters howl, shriek and twitch like wolverines in heat. Present in nearly every scene is a revulsive chorus of guttersnipes, beggars, epileptics and whores who leap and leer with a demonic joy reminiscent of Hieronymous Bosch...