Word: amens
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...Amen Corner, by James Baldwin, has one negative virtue as compared with his Blues for Mr. Charlie, offered last season: it is not a strident, vulgar, melodramatic polemic on the race question. Those who love to see the tumbrels of social protest roll portentously across the stage will be sorely disappointed. The play also has one positive virtue: Baldwin's autobiographical acquaintance with the Negro evangelical scene. But Amen Corner, a 14-year-old first play, scuttles edgewise through this milieu like a crab, evading dramatic life more successfully than it confronts its characters. Baldwin has yet to learn...
...STAPLE SINGERS: AMEN! (Epic). The Staple family-Roebuck, his son Purvis, Daughters Mavis and Cleotha-is one of the liveliest gospel groups around, and they raise the roof with More Than a Hammer and a Nail and He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. But they are entertainers too (their title song, Amen, comes from the movie Lilies of the Field), and they incidentally demonstrate the strong kinship of gospel to rock 'n' roll...
...similar gangs, and set up a coordinated intelligence service that will try to track down the hoods wherever they appear. "They will no longer be allowed to threaten the lives, peace and security of honest citizens of our state," said he. To that, thousands of Californians shuddered a grateful amen...
...refrigerators-far more than in any other Communist country. Quality remains doubtful. The tinny Wartburg sedan (price: 15,200 marks) is dubbed "Luther" by cynical East Germans because its performance reminds them of Luther's cry: "Here I stand-I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen...
...into his throat as the chill weight pitched over her, warm beneath the chill. The wantonness of it at noon with all the summer world at work while with the furious young angel she mounted higher, deeper, until with a shudder the blue air burst and they fell, an amen of exhausted wings...