Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sermon, in which he also cited the late Dag Hammarskjöld's aphorism: "In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action." The time has passed, said Hines, when Christians can retreat within their ecclesiastical for tress to recite prayers and polish brass. "The church is caught up today in the throes of a worldwide convulsion, the basic ferment of which is the thrust for freedom and dignity and hope on the part of the little people of the world. The church as an agent of God's reconciling love cannot survive...
...brief moment, only to shift into new combinations, new designs, new moods. Scenes of high and solemn moment, as in the oath taking, swiftly changed to crowded dance floors, to prancing horses and strutting drum majorettes, to humming cocktail parties, wriggling teenagers, somber prayers, to ear-shattering brass bands endlessly playing Hail to the Chief, to laughter and cheers, to sentimental squeezes and unashamed tears...
...time came at last for that most bewildering of American phenomena, the inaugural parade, a fixture that comes so naturally to a spectacle-loving public that few people ever think to question its necessity or its form. Yet there it was, with all the oomph and oompah, the crashing brass, the flights of unwitting comic relief, the displays of acrobatics, the precision marching, the dimpled knees and limber legs, the earnest faces of the young people who had come from all over the nation...
Naturally their latest offensive came as Premier Huong endeavored once again to put back together his Humpty-Dumpty regime. Last week Huong installed four military officers in his Cabinet in an effort to improve relations with the brass and discourage more coups. There was a slight delay. Although Huong and Chief of State Phan Khac Suu waited in the palace on the appointed day, the four failed to show up because Air Force Boss Nguyen Cao Ky had last-minute second thoughts about giving up his command for his Cabinet assignment-Minister of Youth and Sports. Finally Ky reluctantly agreed...
...smog sullies its air, no wastes pollute its waters. The climate is kindly (67°-70°) all year. It is a place that people dream of coming back to, and they do; the phone book is a virtual Who Was Who of retired Navy and Marine Corps brass. To keep San Diego unspoiled, the city fathers long ago adopted rigid zoning laws. For decades, all attempts to attract new industry bogged down in the perennial controversy known locally as "geraniums v. smokestacks," and geraniums were practically growing in the streets...