Word: amenability
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...piano, Aretha stepped out of the robed choir that was massed on tiers behind the altar. Moving in front of a lectern, she closed her eyes and sang: "Precious Lord, take my hand ..." The congregation nodded or swayed gently in their seats. "Sing it!" they cried, clapping hands. "Amen, amen!" Her melodic lines curved out in steadily rising arcs as she let her spirit dictate variations on the lyrics, finally straining upward in pure soul...
...Leadbelly and so many others have testified, to "rock." Nothing that has happened to me since equals the power and the glory that I sometimes felt when . . . the church and I were one. Their pain and their joy were mine, and mine were theirs . . . and their cries of "Amen!" and "Hallelujah!" and "Yes, Lord!," "Praise His name!," "Preach it, brother!" sustained and whipped on my solos until we all became equal, wringing wet singing and dancing, in anguish and rejoicing, at the foot of the altar...
...hands as if the home team had just won the state basketball championship. "As I stand here in my mother's state,"* said Nixon, "I am glad to be back home in Indiana." The crowd was nearly evangelical in its response, one woman exclaiming over and over again: "Amen, amen, Nixon! He can't be beat." Along with the usual campaign placards, a new sticker appeared on Hoosier cars: "Feel Safer with Nixon." The candidate must also have felt safe: this was the state he carried by nearly 225,000 votes in the 1960 election...
...clasped hands across a table and pronounced a declaration of unity. Massed in the hall, 10,000 members of the two denominations followed suit, joining hands and reciting in unison: "Lord of the church, we are united in thee, in thy church, and now in the United Methodist Church. Amen...
...arising from repression. Hymns reflected both the African origin of the Negro and the agony of his existence. Sermons emphasized the vision of beatitude in the promised land; the congregation-condemned to submission and silence elsewhere-was free here to give public vent to its yearnings in cries of "Amen." Says John Lewis of Atlanta, former chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The church was the only place where Negroes could come together. Their songs were for themselves alone...