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...would be the message. But the distinctive characteristic of L'Avventura is that things are not the same at the end as they were in the beginning. Claudia has changed, as has Anna (if she lives), as has Julia. L'Avventura is a study of Claudia living, not a hymn of despair or diatribe against society...
...movie version of The Conscience of a Conservative: "It's going to be a silent, sponsored by Pierce-Arrow." Then, of course, there's the John Birch Society. And at Manhattan's Upstairs at the Downstairs, a Birch sextet nightly sings a sort of battle hymn of the reactionaries, with verses like...
...French were subjected to intensive brainwashing-but with vastly different results. The paratroop officers made a calculated decision to embrace the "political fiction" of the camp. They signed petitions condemning capitalism, accused themselves of monstrous crimes, made a noisy show of repentance, and even wrote a "progressive" hymn in which each word had a double meaning. They answered the doublethink of the Communists with doubletalk manifestoes that had "just the right amount of exaggeration to make anyone with any sense howl with laughter...
...Shango Hymn (Geoffrey Holder and his Trinidad Hummingbirds: Washington). Singer-Painter-Dancer Holder and group, to the accompaniment of water glasses and backs of chairs, offer some authentic samples of Caribbean hymns and work songs that may surprise ears accustomed to steel-band calypso. The rhythms are complex, the melodies evocative, the moods haunting and strange...
...Express proprietor and Junor's boss, British Press Lord Beaverbrook was only exercising a publisher's right to disagree with his own paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living...