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...stage and barrels into a country rocker titled Gettin' By. Almost immediately a fistfight breaks out in one corner of the auditorium; dancing bursts out in another. Midway through Walker's set the pedal steel-guitar player takes over with a whining rendition of Dixie, The Battle Hymn of the Republic and America the Beautiful The crowd of 1,500 cheers, hoisting half-empty Lone Star beers toward the stage. Walker finishes his two-hour performance, then returns for an encore number, Pissin' in the Wind. By now the audience is standing on chairs, whooping, waving Stetsons...
Indeed, autumn deserves a hymn-and it has received far less tribute than it deserves. True, some mixed notices have come in over the centuries. Horace slandered autumn as a "dread" period-"harvest-season of the Goddess of Death." He was dead wrong, of course, for as Ovid noted, once he got his mind off sex, autumn is "cum formossisimus annus"-"the fairest season of the year." Had he lived a little later, Horace might have found out from the U.S. Census Bureau that the death rate is usually lower in autumn than in winter and spring. Why? Science doesn...
Russians who happened to tune in to Radio Moscow at 7 one night last week were startled to hear the massed voices of the famed Bolshoi Theater chorus in a fortissimo rendering of their long-lost national anthem. Not for 20 years had the rousing hymn been sung in public in the U.S.S.R. Now, the press agency Tass announced, it would be broadcast on radio throughout the Soviet Union at 6 a.m. and 12 midnight daily and at the start of each day of television programming. The anthem will also be transmitted regularly by loudspeakers in public squares and parks...
...think it is apparent that the Silent Majority is no longer silent. The hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers has just been taken out of mothballs. Charity toward people, yes; but tolerance toward...
...become the church, but at the moment it is rafter high with refuse. So last week's inaugural service had to be held in the general store, which is full of abandoned electrical equipment. The new settlers, accompanied by banjo, piano and two guitars, belted out a new hymn for the occasion, written to the tune of Okie from Muskogee...