Word: cymbal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cliches of classroom science films -the white-coated chemist making voodoo, the spectacular, cymbal-scored shot of steel being poured or an oil well gushing, the concluding tide of coronation music as the sponsoring firm is identified -are familiar to every schoolboy who has slumped, bored but gratefully relaxed, through a reel or two of respite from the chore of learning. High school science teachers have tolerated these technological travelogues presumably because they are "visual aids to education," and the phrase sounds up-to-date; college science profs have ignored them almost completely...
...assortment of blue-smocked prop men), Mrs. Noah stood aside and jeered (moaned Noah: "Lord that wemen be crabbed ay!"). The "animals"-a chorus of 70 children-marched two by two into the ark caroling "Kyrie, Kyrie, Kyrie eleison," and the orchestra launched with a crash into cymbal-punctuated storm music that reached its climax in a beautifully descanted chorus of Eternal Father. As the storm subsided, the cast climbed back to the stage singing a four-part Britten Alleluia, filed out singing Thomas Tallis' The Spacious Firmament on High...
...than the un-glamour of middle age. to recommend her-an open, frankly sentimental, strongly appealing style. She makes her entrance chanting Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing in a slightly husky, twangy voice. After the applause dies down, she may take off her glasses, pick up a battered cymbal and start flailing it with a wire brush while she launches into a foot-stomping, open-throated jazz version of Lazy River...
...Theater in Copenhagen had dwindled to an offstage piano. But the world's second oldest ballet (after France's L'Opéra) and Western Europe's second best (after Britain's Sadler's Wells) had no need of sounding brass or tinkling cymbal. Dancing a series of divertissements and set pieces from their repertory, they delighted packed houses of up-from-the-city balletomanes and matinee contingents from nearby girls' camps with the warm, old-fashioned charm of their style...
Answer: I Corinthians, the whole thirteenth chapter, beginning with, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal" and ending with "and now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the greaterst of them is charity...