Word: hymned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could hear that message echo in the Congress last week from another Illinois man--Ronald Reagan. His State of the Union message was a hymn to freedom. Reagan has taken notice of the farm plight and so has Washington, and there will be a mighty bureaucratic effort to hold on to this portion of our national heritage. But deep, painful change is coming no matter what Ronald Reagan does...
...elegiac Viet Nam movies such as Coming Home and The Deer Hunter. At the end of The Deer Hunter, when the hero has returned home, the crowd in a dingy bar in a Pennsylvania steel town sings God Bless America, but sings it so thinly and tentatively that the hymn becomes not an affirmation of the nation but a wistful dirge, the memory of something that the war destroyed. Today, the tones of patriotism in entertainment are loud and clear and sometimes tinny with the sound of jingo...
...Missouri, the G.O.P. retained the governorship that Christopher ("Kit") Bond was required to give up after serving two terms. His successor: Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, a born-again Christian who sometimes ended his stump speeches with a gospel hymn from one of the record albums he has co-recorded. Ashcroft beat back the challenge of Democrat Kenneth Rothman, 49, Lieutenant Governor for the past four years. A graduate of Yale and the son of minister, Ashcroft defended his failure to prosecute dioxin polluters by pointing out that doing so precipitately might have jeopardized the federal buyout of polluted homesites...
With familiar chants of "Solidarnosc!"the crowd joined Walesa in defiantly flashing the V sign and singing the patriotic hymn God Who Watches Over Poland, as hundreds of grim-faced policemen looked on. But Walesa was seeking no showdown. After leaving his bouquet at the base of the monument to workers killed during antigovernment riots in 1970, he quietly thanked his supporters for coming and drove away...
...clothes. When the General once again refuses an order to take the field on behalf of king and country, his eyes are put out. Images of his victims appear before the blinded General; frightened, the asylum's inmates kill him, while ghosts of the liberated dead sing a hymn to the revolution: "We stand by the river./ If the water is deep we will swim./ If it is too fast we will build boats./ We will stand on the other side./ We have learned to march so well/ That we cannot drown...