Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle Hymn (Universal-International) pictures the Korean war as a sort of Sunday-school outing at which some of the boys got a little out of hand. The hero (Rock Hudson) is Colonel Dean Hess, an Ohio parson (Disciples of Christ) who in real life flew 62 missions as a fighter pilot in World War II, then rejoined the Air Force when the Korean war broke out, and was ticketed to train the new-fledged ROK air force. The colonel found that his soldier's duty still left him enough time to satisfy his Christian conscience-by founding...
...British Museum, and she thinks she had better start at the beginning with The Origin of Species. Soon, except that she likes to enter her flat by climbing the drainpipe, and that she has a humble and loving heart (at the mission school she had heard the hymn, "He that is low need fear no fall"). Emily is indistinguishable from other intellectuals...
...Manchurian border. After six days of flight, during which he has only a handful of nuts for food, Hryhory is still powerful enough to stab a bear to death and rescue Natalka Sirko, the daughter of a family of hunters. The remainder of the book is largely a hymn to the free life of the Sirko family, whose elemental existence is wondrously untouched by the Soviet police power...
...Prokofiev moved from personal emotion to glorification of the Russian masses, he was less successful, but nevertheless produced some fine choruses-e.g., the troops in praise of General Kutuzov, the citizens in a hymn of thanks for victory. The second part also produced the most authoritative acting-and one of the finest voices-in Baritone Kenneth Smith, who played General Kutuzov with sinewy dignity. High point of the opera came in one of the closing scenes, in which Andrey and Natasha were reunited as Andrey lay on his deathbed. Through his delirium he hears a pulsing beat, played...
...committee at work on a new hymnal for U.S. Congregational churches turned up a Hungarian hymn, written nearly 300 years ago, that is ripe for revival. Excerpt from Hymn of the Hungarian Galley Slaves...