Word: harking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lanza Sings Christmas Carols (RCA Victor Stereo). Tenor Lanza, who recorded this album in Italy not long before his death this fall, sings his carols straight, and they have rarely sounded better: Away in a Manger, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Silent Night...
Kelly & Jelly. To juvenile minstrels, adult foibles are fit for parodies that spread with lightning speed. During the crisis over King Edward VIII's abdication in 1936, when censorship hushed grownups, English children everywhere blithely chanted: "Hark, the Herald Angels sing,/ Mrs. Simpson's pinched our King...
...partisans hark back to the Hasidim (pious ones) who flourished in 18th century Poland. But unlike other modern Hasidic sects-which are devoted to a kind of cheerful mysticism and have no objections to Israel-Teitelbaum's followers are fanatically opposed to most aspects of modern life, including military service, voting, movies and TV, mixed gatherings of men and women. They live in self-imposed ghettos, speak only Yiddish since they consider Hebrew sacred and reserved for prayers. Their opposition to Israel rests on two beliefs: 1) only the Messiah can establish a Jewish state, and any human attempt...
...beefy British solidity. Since his death, he has often been thought of as a kind of stodgy musical ecclesiastic, partly because of the ceremonial repetition of his Messiah, partly because of Handel's own susceptibility to mawkishly awkward texts-most notably in the numerous bird songs like "Hark! 'Tis the linnet and the thrush" in Joshua...
...Under a canopy near the grave, the mourners silently took their places. In the first row beside the family-Mrs. Dulles, two grown sons, a married daughter-sat the President of the U.S., his face set in sadness, and next to him his wife. As the Army band played Hark, Hark, My Soul, servicemen from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard lifted the coffin from the caisson and carried it to the grave. The Rev. Roswell P. Barnes, U.S. secretary of the World Council of Churches, read the burial service: "I am the resurrection...