Word: christly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's slogan went back to basics: following the light of Jesus Christ. The emphasis throughout was on reconciliation...
...church could not be avoided. The most forceful call for change came from South African Colored Dutch Reformed Minister Allan Boesak. After condemning repressive regimes with no respect for human rights, he singled out his homeland, where oppression is "carried out by Christians in the name of Christ...
...almost made it to the end. Then the palm of his hand came up to his mouth. He yawned." Just one of death's little ironies, the kind that Bishop ran through his Smith-Corona portable for such bestsellers as The Day Lincoln Was Shot (1955), The Day Christ Died (1957), The Day Kennedy Was Shot...
...dragged out a collection of notes he had been accumulating on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The resulting book became a six-figure success, translated into 14 languages. Bishop was unexpectedly rich and courted. The Hearst organization signed him to write a syndicated column, and his Christ book became a bigger hit than Lincoln: "Ministers from around the nation were writing to say that I inspired them in their work. This is not amusing to a man who has stopped going to church...
Like the ceremony, the program of music relied heavily on the traditional with a felicitous overlay of the modern. There was everything from Handel to favorite hymns of Charles (Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation) and of Diana (I Vow to Thee, My Country) to a lilting yet regal new anthem by Welsh Composer William Mathias, 46. The ceremony ended with God Save the Queen, newly arranged by Sir David Willcocks, director of the Royal College of Music, who worked the oceanic swell of that great melody into a kind of coda of moral grandeur. As the anthem died, cheers...