Word: gores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mutual, specialist in blood & gore, will be sleuthing with Sherlock Holmes and Charlie Chan. Notable new programs: Information, Please (from CBS), and Billy Rose, who will pitch his newspaper horseshoes at radio...
Mystery in the Tower. But, as always, the big news of the week was a story of mystery, gore and violence. In the blood-stained Tower of London, MacDonald the Raven had been found brutally murdered, his head severed from his body. When the ravens leave the Tower, says an old legend, Britain's majesty will topple. As it searched in vain for MacDonald's murderer, Scotland Yard suspected the worst. Another raven was hastily imported to maintain the garrison, and an extra guard of six troops thrown about the remaining ravens. Solemnly and in full state...
...Athough I heartily agree with Professor Gore that the standard of musical taste in most churches could be improved, his premises on the subject of voluptuousness v. holiness in music bear some questioning...
...answer to all this is that music is music; at the time we may associate certain emotions with it; in another period its effect may be entirely different. I am afraid music is a foreign language to Professor Gore also, with his talk of "osculatory orchestration" and similar tripe. He says church music should be written by the "best composers." Who decides who are the best composers? Professor Gore...
...hearty "Amen" to Professor Gore's comments on church music. Too long have many of us who are organists and choirmasters been appalled by the low grade of music in the services of the church...