Word: choirful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outsiders are not better," said Mary J. Moore, a deputy clerk in superior court who has been an usher, sung in the choir and played a colonist. "They're just more professional." Mary's husband Frank has worked backstage, and her daughters Betty, Janie and Gracie have all had roles...
...Europe rumbles in the background, his worry as shaky news-service jobs wash out from under him. His account of trying to get CBS to pay attention to the imminent annexation of Austria, while a New York executive insisted that he set up a series of children's choir broadcasts, is a classic tale of the man in the field confounded by home-office buffoonery...
...with no sense of cautionary exhortation by the author. Any such message-that tribalistic savagery is mankind's eternal, bone-bred evil, perhaps-would be excessive. Appelfeld simply and affectingly bears witness, and in the end, his sole, muted voice is more effective than a choir and louder than a roar...
...love for his father: the lifelong failure who "came to Montreal as an in fant, his father fleeing Galicia. Pogroms. Rampaging Cossacks. But, striptease shows aside, the only theater my father relished, an annual outing for the two of us, was the appearance of the Don Cossack Choir at the St. Denis Theater. My father would stamp his feet to their lusty marching and drinking songs; his eyes would light up to see those behemoths, his own father's tormentors, prance and tumble onstage. Moses Isaac Richler, who never marched, nor drank, nor pranced...
...which 30% of East Germans belong (8% are Catholic), has not fared so well. No more than a tenth of those baptized are still active in congregations. Christian children are often barred from higher education, except when they are members of elite groups, such as the boys' choir at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach once served as music director. State employees are expected to be atheists. Jobs in teaching, the courts, or the military are automatically out of bounds for believers. The historic Friedrichskirche, a squat brick church with pointed steeple that Frederick the Great built...