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...great march was over, the last hallelujah had sounded from the speaker's stand, the crowd of some 25,000 had left the streets outside the starkwhite capital in Montgomery, and a period of relative peace seemed about to descend on Alabama's strife-torn civil rights scene. Then the white racists of Alabama, in characteristic fashion, shattered that peace by murdering a white woman from Detroit. This act of moronic savagery once again outraged the national conscience, provoked the President of the U.S. into a nationwide television outburst, in which he announced the arrest of four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Protest on Route 80 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...live forever. How long? Not long, because you still reap what you sow. How long? Not long, because the arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." In a concluding crescendo he boomed out the words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, shouting "Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Protest on Route 80 | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

After wining, dining, and cavorting at the Pudding, she will retire to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston and conduct a press conference about her new film, "Hallelujah Trail," to be released this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pud Elects Remick As Woman of Year | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...unwieldy corpse is funnier in promise than performance. On the other hand, when the cast dons wigs and choirboys' surplices for a spastic rock-'n'-roll number called "I Wanna Hold Your Handel," they memorably spoof both the composer and the Beatles, with a blasting hallelujah! yeah! yeah! The evening ends in a British courtroom with a bewigged theater-of-the-absurd farce-trial involving a dwarf that is hilarious enough all by itself to make the show Broadway's Circus Maximus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Banana with Appeal | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...Brig is a raw slice of new American cinema filmed on an off-Broadway stage by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas (Hallelujah the Hills) with such brutish authenticity that it won a Venice festival grand prize as best documentary. Part drama, part polemic, with shockwave sound and a nightmare air that suggests Kafka with a Kodak, the movie does exactly what it sets out to do-seizes an audience by the shirtfront and slams it around from wall to wall for one grueling day in a Marine Corps lockup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festival in New York | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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