Word: hosannah
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...Boston Church of Christ is about hand-clapping, hosannah-saying, old time religion. And religion that hasn't been defanged and coralled in stately Memorial Church is something Harvard is never comfortable with...
...Pretensions. The expressed notion that religious ritual is empty because the world still behaves as if it were pretty much the devil's province, that because man has failed on earth God has failed too is common enough. According to individual taste, one can greet it with a hosannah, a miserere nobis or a sancta simplicitas. Bernstein, after all, is an artist and entertainer, not a theologian. But even his stagecraft, his taste and his music, despite many delights and flourishes, reflect a basic confusion...
...review of the Advocate in Tuesday's issue of the CRIMSON. It seems the smug Mr. Smail sees the reviewer Mr. Kaiser as too virtuosic to have much value in his criticism; he challenges Mr. Kaiser's right to use the phrase "the not-so-faint susurrus of hosannahs," which "makes a mockery of the English language." He recommends that Mr. Kaiser get a good dose of Fowler's "Modern English Usage." As it turns out it would seem that Ezra Pound, about whom the review was written, is the one who needs Fowler. (P.S. I am sure Mr. Pound...
...paintings since 1931 opened in the Bellas Artes gallery, crowds blocked the streets waiting to get in. Thirty minutes after the doors opened, they were closed again, to save those inside from being trampled in the rush. The critics' reaction to the show was unanimous-a prolonged huzza-hosannah. "Only those bound up in iron prejudices," said the newspaper Excelsior, "could fail to appreciate the work of this genius...
...Smyth, one of Historian Beard's Socratic-dialoguers, passes through Professor Beard's study at Hosannah Hill, selects therefrom copies of TIME and Plato's Republic...