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Word: choiring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writing." Instead there is a busy round of "dusting, sweeping, sewing, mending" plus spiritual duties, beginning at 4:45 a.m. Ursula is soon displaying what can only be called a lack of Christian charity and humility. Her priest-confessor "has little blue eyes like an intelligent pig. " Her choir neighbor has a rasping voice that "bores like a drill." The nun's "starched headgear not only gives one a headache but-makes it difficult to hear." And fasting "makes one feel so dreadful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ex-Nun's Story | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...Father Superior accepts the credentials of a candidates, he enters a period of postulancy lasting from three to nine months. During this time he must wear an ordinary choir cassock so long as he remains in the Monastery. Outside the enclosure, he resumes normal dress...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Monastery Hides Near MTA | 10/25/1957 | See Source »

...musical score of the film is everything a squirrel could ask for. When the animals sleep, a choir of angels breathes over them what sounds almost exactly like Brahms's Lullaby but turns out to be an original composition by George Bruns, the man who wrote Davy Crockett. When Perri sleeps, she dreams in a combination of live and animated effects, just like other movie stars, and the dream figures engage in the usual elaborate ballet-though of course they are not people, but dear little bunnies. Producer Disney has even provided Perri with a love interest: a bushy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 21, 1957 | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Sickness delayed the arrival of the Studentischer Madrigal-choir of Munster University in West Germany, whose Volkswagen caravan drove into the Yard last night. Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members stood in the rain for several hours waiting to greet the 52 students and their director, Frau Herma Reuter. The group will present a concert of Bach, Brahms, and Bruckner tonight at 8:30 in Paine Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Munster Choir Arrives | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

...Mesta this meant some ten visits, "whenever I'm in New York. Billy is a perfectly marvelous man who is doing a great deal of good. I plan to give a dinner for him, though I haven't any firm date yet." Ethel Waters sang in the choir almost every night of the crusade. "I just love to hear the word of God, and I don't get enough of it," she said last week. "Billy's a wonderful child of God, and we can all be thankful for the reprieve that's been given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Crusade Windup | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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