Word: hymned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choir are seated in folding chairs in their rehearsal room at Christ and Holy Trinity Church, Westport, Conn. Bruce Barber, choir director, stoops at the piano with one foot on the sustain pedal and his eyes on his singers. He is leading them through a 300-year-old hymn, and he is not happy...
They take it again, more intensely. "No glottal stop on the 'I,' please," Barber says, breaking in. "I know it's hard." They give him a wide-open "I," then try the hymn again...
This time Barber is exultant: "Oh, altos, it was wonderful. You gave me lots of chutzpah." He beams around the room, dark eyebrows dancing up over eyeglass rims. "Now take out Hymn...
Julia Ward Howe heard marching, singing soldiers beneath her Willard window and wrote the words for The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Walt Whitman aimed a sharp arrow at what he saw in the Willard...
Despite feminist lobbying, the panel will retain traditional male nouns, such as Lord and Father, for the Deity. "They decided not to mess with God," remarks one Methodist official. But in deference to the sensitivities of blacks, the Lord will no longer wash sinners "whiter than snow" in the hymn Have Thine Own Way, Lord. And reflecting the Methodist mood of social activism, efforts are being made to strike phrases that emphasize longing for the next world over involvement in this...