Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...350th Anniversary Commission. This big piece is in the tradition of the great Baroque "occasional" odes; in fact it is about two-thirds Handel and one-third Thompson. The third of the seven movements is a first cousin to the "Londonderry Air," and the fourth is based on the hymn "O God Our Help In Ages Past." There are fanfares and a full-blown fugue and finale. This is all effective writing, and the chorus produced some glorious sounds...
Hollywood long ago discovered that priests and nuns were box office. Protestants were tossed a few films such as A Man Called Peter and Battle Hymn, but it was the Roman collar that looked best on Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien-not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine...
...with a nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters, had seen a film glorifying Mussolini's last stand, asked a café orchestra to play the forbidden Blackshirt hymn Giovinezza, topped off his day by observing July 4 with a 2 a.m. fireworks display on the Appian Way-creating such indignation that a city council meeting debating the reports broke up in acrimonious confusion. Heading back to the U.S. with a lightened cargo of good will, Hynes bleated...
...public innocently supposes that this is the 'nature of the unity we seek,' and then cannot comprehend why we waste so much time 'negotiating' when we ought at once to fall on each other's necks and burst out together into Schiller's Hymn...
EVANGELIST Billy Graham's New York Crusade has been reported in TIME and the rest of the press from the opening hymn to the last bus home. Unreported so far has been the campaign's effect on the huge, complex, impersonal city, where the white Protestants who have made up most of Billy's audiences in the past are a minority group. Trying to gauge that effect, TIME spot-checked Protestant pastors of various denominations throughout the city, looked for other clues, e.g., Bible sales in a dozen bookstores. For the finding, see RELIGION, Crusade...