Word: choiring
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...growing up that it was decorated nicely," she told TIME Correspondent Sandy Burton. "We had a red velvet couch that I thought was beautiful." Diana's youthful memories are free of the usual ghetto scrounging and deprivation. Her whole family (three brothers, two sisters) sang in the choir of a Baptist church, and Diana learned secular music from a cousin who was known as "the girl with the golden voice." Diana took high school courses in sewing and fashion design, and the money she saved by running up her own pleated skirts she spent on bobby socks and sweaters...
...energized to a higher revolutionary level by the Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers album: among the lyrics on the first cut "We Can Be Together" are: "We are all outlaws in the eyes of America... Tear down the falls, motherfucker" sung with the power of a black Southern Baptist revival choir...
...Sunday morning, the movie theater on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood is packed. The front rows are filled with a red-robed choir of men and women. Hymnals are distributed; an organ plays. By Hollywood standards, the congregation is run-of-the-mill: middle-aged businessmen, a few boys in rainbow-hued bellbottoms, muscular types in T shirts, women in assorted styles of pants or skirts, a few motorcycle boys in mustaches and black leather. Whites, blacks, Orientals, Chicanos. Prayers are read. From a chair at the side, a husky 30-year-old man in vestments abruptly rises, steps swiftly...
...best they can do is ponder several of the new Dylan songs that seem to be exploratory sketches from a low-key musical notebook. There is, for example, Wigwam, in which Dylan goes "da-da-da-da" to a slow marching tune while-believe it or not-a choir of bugles and low brass urges him along...
...Acquaintances in Detroit remember Sams as a braggart and a brawler.... They say he packed a revolver underneath a used choir robe that he said was a dashiki. At a rally in West Side Church, the audience giggled throughout a speech by [Stokely] Carmichael because Sams, recruited on stage as a bodyguard, tasted the water from a pitcher to test it for poison and drank...