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...succession of music rooms, chapels, lavatories, storerooms, and, of course, "slumber rooms." The decoration is "subdued but cheerful," which enables many funeral homes, when their business is lagging, to rent space to wedding parties. And here, where the reek of euphemism mingles with the chemical deodorant and the recorded hymn, has been perfected "the new aesthetic of death," a specifically American response to the handwriting on the wall...
...main plaza, the band followed the national anthem with a new Hymn to Fleming. Then Lady Fleming unveiled a bust of the man Spaniards call El Buen Sabio (The Good Wizard...
Light of the World} featured a stumbling, skid-row drunk transformed by an angel into a white-robed candidate for the heavenly host. During the fourth ( Christ Died for Every Nation}, the choir marched in waving American flags, sang God Bless America, later broke into a jazzy hymn called V is for Victory while they waved flags of all nations...
...teau Yquem; Madeira Sercial. The minute he heard it, Captain McCutchen knew he was rich.* Inside the isolation booth he conferred with his father-advisor (for appearance sake only, it seemed), cracked his knuckles, and cracked out the answers. Squealed Emcee Hal March, amid crashing chords of The Marine Hymn: "If you're symbolic of the Marine Corps, Dick, I don't see how we'll ever lose any battles...
...noble, tragic men who populate the bulging political prisons. If there is one thing Author Fast knows, it is where the grapes of wrath are stored. When he is not busy explaining that Christ and Tom Paine felt just .as he does, he repeats this phrase from the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and it obviously makes him feel like Abraham Lincoln...