Word: cymbal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christ's prophetic pronouncement: ". . . Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy" . . . And F.D.R.'s pious preachment: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity (love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal...
...concrete settlements planted by the Israelis in the barren Negeb. It was midnight, and the wedding guests were still dancing outside the bridegroom's house. By the light of a glaring carbide lamp, the guests whirled and stomped to the wailing music of flute and cymbal. The watchdogs had been barking at the excitement all evening, and nobody noticed when they barked a little louder...
Then, if Dave feels the crowd with him and if his psyche is in good order, a unique event takes place. The rhythm seems to take hold of everybody in the room. Drummer Dodge feels it and starts to bang on his Chinese cymbal (an instrument studded with loose rivets that buzz like a dozen sizzling steaks), and his bass drum whaps out compulsively, unpredictably. Bates hunches closer to his bass. Desmond, his lips without their mouthpiece looking like a nearsighted man's eyes without his spectacles, moves quietly away from the piano. Brubeck seems to cut his ties...
Graham's meetings, like his neckties, are less noisy than they used to be. Sounding brass and tinkling cymbal have been replaced by straight choir singing, with a simple organ and piano accompaniment. As the audience arrives (babies may be left in special nurseries known to the Graham staff as "bawl rooms"), Choir Leader Cliff Barrows is warming up the singers. Song books are passed around to the crowd; then Barrows invites the audience to sing, swinging a glittering trombone; Bass-Baritone Bev Shea goes into action with a few oldtime-religion songs, and the collection and an invocation...
...Zildjian, Turkish, 12-inch, lefthanded cymbal is missing from the confines of the Harvard University Band. Robert S. Blacklow '55, student conductor of the Band and part time cymbalist, reported the loss last night...