Word: choiring
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...problem of minor arts v. the so-called fine arts. Minor arts are simply things that are considered smaller." To prove that the minor arts are not always so small, Rorimer got the Hearst Foundation in 1957 to give him a lofty 45-by 47-ft. Spanish baroque choir screen, whose 60,000 Ibs. of elegant grillwork spans one of the Met's halls. Only a museum can frame a room as art, such as the Met's cubiculum, or bedroom, from the Roman town of Boscoreale on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Its wall scenes of architectural...
...Attended the unveiling of a portrait of Connecticut Senator and ex-Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Abraham Ribicoff, which will hang in HEW headquarters. Following a rendition by the Social Security Chorus, a volunteer choir composed of about 40 employees of the Social Security Administration's office near Baltimore, Johnson made a little talk, wisecracking: "I was told that they were going to hang a U.S. Senator...
Homicide is only one of Kirby's quirks. Upstairs he conducts choir practice for a collection of speak-your-weight machines, reasoning that machines that talk ought to be able to sing a cappella. He also dotes on Pavlovian dogs, and his reflexes are conditioned accordingly. "Now he has to have a little ping every time he sets down to a meal," his mother complains, pinging...
...Churchill's coffin was carried up the nave, the choir intoned I Am the Resurrection and the Life. There were no flowers, but many flags and banners from old campaigns. Between the bier and the altar rested Churchill's tokens of office: his black-draped sword, the great carved lion that is the Churchill family crest, sashes bearing the medals and honors of a lifetime of great achievement. The pallbearers-Churchill's old wartime colleagues and chiefs of staff-moved quietly to their seats...
After a special prayer read by the dean of St. Paul's, organ and choir burst into Churchill's favorite American anthem, The Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was sung at his express command and in homage to the honorary U.S. citizenship granted him in 1963. It was also symbolic of his lifetime dream of a closer union between the two nations whose blood flowed in his veins. The martial thunder of the old abolitionist hymn, with its stern New England pieties, may at first have sounded startling in Christopher Wren's graceful English Renaissance church...