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...novel Dostoevsky refers to Raskolnikov's "gradual regeneration," all, of course, through great suffering. The movie ends with a church hymn being sung in the background as Rene is led away in the police van. Lili is looking on, with tears in her eyes and an angelic smile on her face. This latter is more visually absurd than the former, but both are intellectually unsatisfactory in the way they warp the entire story to fit it to an artificial ending...
Thousands of copies of a Ceremonial Hymn to NATO were recently distributed to British schoolchildren with the suggestion that they sing it at prayers...
...mother had destined him from the cradle to be an architect, hung his room with woodcuts of English cathedrals, hand-raised him according to the advanced Froebel kindergarten with its great emphasis on creative play with geometric blocks. Summertimes his mother's family, the Lloyd-Joneses-bearded, hymn-singing Welshmen who still boasted of their Druid motto. "Truth Against the World''-gave him a lesson in farm work that Wright later recalled as "working from tired to tired." His father, an unstable drifter who fluctuated between being a Unitarian minister and a music master, taught...
This book is a reverent and amusing hymn to a handful of adventurers who penetrated the bone-littered wastes of Central Asia during the past 125 years. Many of them stayed there, with their heads cleaved from their bodies by the bloodthirsty rulers of Bokhara, Merv, Kokand and Khiva. The most fascinating of these adventurers was one Joseph Wolff, a disputatious Jew turned Anglican missionary, who set out in 1843 to rescue two British officers held captive in Bokhara...
...Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC. 9-10 p.m.). Guests: Hymn-Shouter Mahalia Jackson, Tony Martin and Ginger Rogers. Color...