Word: choiring
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...news of his arrest shocked neighbors on 120th Street in Harlem. It surprised employees at 200 Varick Street, where Strachan had worked for 20 years. It stunned the choir at the Greater Refuge Temple, where he sang bass- baritone. "We said, 'That's not the Leroy Strachan we know -- he wouldn't hurt a fly,' " says elder Charles Wright. "He's not the sneaky, runaway kind of guy." Then there were Leroy's children, who had no idea that for 45 years, their father had lived with a secret that finally caught up with him. Perhaps it was poetic justice...
Sonya M. Rudenstine, 21, is a junior political science major at Stanford who is planning to write her senior thesis on the privatization of prisons. She plays lacrosse and sings in the Stanford University Choir...
...been able to play these complaints off each other and position himself in the middle as the conductor of a discordant choir. What he has done that infuriates the left also makes him tolerable to the right, albeit just barely. And vice versa. Remove him from the equation, and the result could be a cataclysmic struggle between forces that are intolerable to each other...
Short of summoning the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to belt out the Horst Wessel Song in the Hollywood Bowl, the museum has spared no efforts to sample the culture of the time as vividly as possible for an audience to whom the Third Reich is, at most, a remote and unwelcome memory. And the catalog, with its essays by Barron and other hands, German scholars as well as American ones, is certain to remain the definitive study of Nazi cultural repression for many years to come...
...addition to coaching the Choir, Higginbottom will give a lecture and a lunch-time concert. The visit is Higginbottom's first trip...