Word: churches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Handel to Hope. For the Sunday East Room service last week, the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church choir put on a half-hour version of Handel's Messiah (see Music). That evening, the program shifted from Handel to Hope as the comedian staged a preview of his Christmas show for the troops in Viet Nam. The audience included the Nixons, the Agnews, Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland, the Henry Fords, Lynda Bird Robb, Presidential Barber Steve Martini and a gaggle of other guests...
...gallows and the gibbet were almost as commonplace as the village church, and "hanging days" were occasions for revelry. In London at the "Tyburn tree" (the present location of Marble Arch), crowds of 100,000 or more assembled to watch the festivities. Distinguished visitors to the ceremonies at Newgate prison were often invited to remain for breakfast. "And if there were no more than six or seven hanged," according to one chronicler, the guests "would return grumbling and disappointed ... After breakfast was over, the whole party adjourned to see the 'cutting down...
...When the church canceled the subsidy, the brothers at Holy Cross suddenly had to raise $72,000 just to keep the school open for the rest of the year. A Holy Cross graduate now serving in Viet Nam began sending his monthly military paychecks. Several local businessmen gave $1,000 each. Even a shoeshine boy tiptoed into Principal Stanley Culotta's office to present his contribution: a stained and shredded $1 bill...
...coming back to life? Was he ever really "dead"? Perhaps he was eclipsed during a period of dizzying social change. And if he returns, will it be to the familiar life of church and synagogue or to another locale? The marketplace? The slum? The commune? The barricade...
...Gallup poll records a slippage in U.S. church attendance on an average Sunday from 49% of the population in 1958 to 43% in 1968. The young are not as irreligious as they seem ?far from it. But most fail to recognize their religious impulse, and they satisfy it far away from the churches ?in Eastern (or pseudo-Eastern) mysteries, in drug reveries, in the noisy trance ,of rock, or sometimes in the touchable realities of nature...