Word: harked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anniversary of Wesley's Christ Church sermon and the 250th anniversary of the year of his birth, some 50 Methodist and Episcopal clergymen marched into the Old North Church to the chimed tunes of Wesley's hymns (two of the best-known: Jesus, Lover of my soul, Hark ! the herald angels sing), to take part in a memorial service. The sermon bore the same title (''One Needful Thing") as Charles Wesley's, and its substance was the stern kind of moralizing that the 18th century preacher would have approved. Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord cited...
...from Bach's Art of the Fugue, and delighted the audience with some Brass music of Johann Pezel, a 17th Century German Town Musician. The Leverett House Glee Club then joined the Brass for a Lied and Chorale by Mendelssohn. The Lied turned out to have the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" set to a German text praising Gutenberg. The effect of a lusty male chorus singing this with a Brass Choir is enough to revive the old tune to unimagined, if somewhat humorous, grandeur...
...centuries, or later in the undulating figures that encrust the great Hindu temple buildings of the null centuries. One such temple figure, Worshiping Goddess, although now defaced and devoid of some of its multiple arms and symbols, would still speak to the devout. Her ample breasts and hips hark back to primitive man's fertility figures; her divine power is shown by her effortless grace as she sways in the dance, oldest Indian image of the gods and nature in its creative aspect. The goddess indicates by her overlong eyes, high-arched brows and attenuated fingers, touching in prayer...
...Hark ! The herald angels sing "Bultmann is the latest thing." At least, they would if he had not Demythologized...
Probably because they were not called upon to represent pure virtue or pure evil, the rest of the dancers were good. Karen Wilk wore the mask of hark and skulked about with the mystery necessary for her ultimate metamorphosis. Also part of the palace menage, the guards did what was required, particularly Eleanor Sutherland, who did more. As good were the tavern people...