Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recriminations. "What faith, what love, can justify the man who makes himself the arbiter of other people's lives?" he pleads-but the chorus gives him no answer. The children's innocent voices haunt him. The adult chorus damns him: "Cursed be the shepherd who leads his flock to death," the people cry, and they burn his books, stone his palace, cast his ring into the sea. Then the blinding answer comes in a climactic sweep of music: death's enriching lesson comes only to those who have suffered the pain of their conscience...
...shouts of "Yeah!" (but rarely the rest of the lyrics) have crept into popular music, but only Mahalia Jackson has been popularly successful with the pure version. A couple of years ago, Brother John Sellers and the Grandison Singers became the first to sing gospel in nightclubs. A thin flock of groups followed, some complaining bitterly that cheating preachers had driven them into it by failing to part with a livable share of the church offering...
...Kansas City A's: "The Kansas City A's were wiped out last night when the team was attacked by a flock of sea gulls. The birds were attracted by the A's' green and gold uniforms...
Moreover such criticism has not seemed to stop the Big name parade. Senator Keating of New York, who now receives 40 to 50 major speaking invitations a week, will come to Harvard Saturday to address the "Political Workshop Conference," which has attracted a flock of other party notables...
Shoot the President. All this freedom has consequences, some not good. Diverse and isolated, Cornellians tend to live in their own little ruts. They flock to 14 sororities and 53 fraternities, but the mix is mostly emulsion. Bright ones complain of faculty inattention. In fact, most arts students go through without seminars, independent study or senior theses...