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Thanks to movies, phonograph, radio and missionary, the world's primitive music is fast dying. Long ago Hawaiian guitar and ukulele tunes were corrupted by the harmonies of the missionary hymn. Elsewhere cowboy ditties and last year's swing hits on battered records have influenced, if not supplanted, the authentic aboriginal hotcha. So the Fahnestocks, who began sailing the South Seas seven years ago, resolved to catch some native music before it got G-stringed...
Titled Onward Comparatively Christian Soldiers, this sly hymn was published last week in London's liberal-to-leftish New Statesman and Nation, but the sentiments in it were not limited to the left. Many a Briton, irrespective of politics, badly wanted to know the answers to some important questions. When and how was Britain going to help Russia? When was Britain going to attack Germany except in the air? Whose war was this anyhow...
...elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian; Shelley's Masque of Anarchy; Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience; The Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...great French comedian Raimu. Except for him the production was mediocre and seemed more a recitation that a serious attempt to capitalize on the analogies of the Cassandra story to the present day. Music for the performance was ably provided by a harpist but the meant-to-be-moving "Hymn to Apollo" fell miserably flat...
...emotional surge that made the Civil War possible came the one great U.S. cultural burst-Emerson and Whitman, the Lincoln speeches and the Lincoln legend, and great war songs such as The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Americans will know what Author Baldwin meant when he wrote: "This is our job: to transmute our potential strength into dynamic energy, into the fighting ships and planes and guns and men we need until the raucous voice of America-the voice of Walt Whitman and The Rail Splitter, of George Washington and the gentle Lee, the voice of the blue-jeaned...