Word: bellsã
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...stared at it hard before voicing her approval. “Mighty nice,” she said. And I suppose it is. But it also emblematic of my becoming someone I never thought I’d be; I can never hear “Silver Bells?? without feeling a twinge of regret...
...adding weight to the rumor, Laursen admitted visiting the Danilovsky Monastery—the original home of the bells??while in Moscow with his family this summer...
Maybe memory has sweetened the bells?? tones since Herbert Hoover was president and Ordzhonikidze was minister of industry, but Harvard students trying to get their z’s after a hard Saturday night know all too well how jarring that Eastern tuning can be. The monks have already shouted post-Soviet hosannas to the heavens upon playing the bells briefly—but before they waste too much energy on their vaguely Quixotic quest, the monks should see if it changes their minds to sit in the Lowell courtyard and let the bell-boys (and girls...
...wanted to record these bells?? sound to get familiar with [the sound] and the bell-ringing tradition here,” Ogryzkov said through a translator...
...They were treated less as an instrument and more as an attribute of church service,” he said of the bells?? history. “In a way it doesn’t seem quite right that bells made for religious purposes are being used this way—but the fact that they are played...is better than them not being played...