Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, where reaction was particularly strong, the school board decided to dump the whole plan. Last week Arthur Levitt, school board member, suggested another idea: Why not substitute the prayerful hymn America...
...Them Take It Away." "Don't let anyone tell you that America's destiny is now reduced down to keeping what we've got ... that the great hymn of America's future is 'Don't let them take it away.' It is not in America's character to respond to standstill and mark-time music...
...Final Hymn. Most sons would by now have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety. But not Crowley. "I want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise," he wrote, "I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong." When World War I began, he left Ouarda in an insane asylum and hurried to the U.S., where he spent the early war years writing pro-German propaganda for George Sylvester Viereck's The Fatherland...
...last years, he was a shadow of a man, half-crazy and exhausted by drugs and debauchery, and his wickedness had degenerated into absurdity. But he still had a few followers. He was cremated at Brighton. Over his beflowered coffin a disciple loudly chanted The Beast's erotic Hymn to Pan. The chairman of Brighton's crematorium committee was not impressed by the innovation. Said he, perhaps unconsciously voicing the thoughts of a generation of Englishmen: "We shall take all necessary steps to prevent such an incident occurring again...
...along the way. Ike stayed out of sight while the Cleveland audience listened transfixed to the voice of Dick Nixon, piped into the auditorium's public-address system. When Nixon finished, the audience came to its feet cheering the empty rostrum. The band burst into the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and the crowd chanted, "We want Nixon...