Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Church services on Sunday and banned the reading of the Ten Commandments because of the "fantastic" morality of their "jealous God" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949). Last week, in his 15th Century Anglican church in the village of Needham Market, Vicar Thomas was at it again. Because he found most hymn tunes "funereal, dull and too difficult to sing," he had dressed up the old Anglican hymn, Rest of the Weary, with the syncopated melody of a British bandleader's current theme song, Here's to the Next Time...
...early evening, people began to gather around the rickety Victoria Hotel on the main street of the farming village of La Sarre (pop. 3,100). Soon the Baptists drove in from their little church outside of town. Six men and four women, they gathered on the corner, opened hymn books, and began to sing in French: What Will Wash Away My Sins...
...onlookers jeered and whistled. A 19-year-old in a white sweat shirt drew loud laughter by pretending to direct the hymn. Then, some in the crowd picked up dust and debris from the road and tossed it over the singers, but they paid no attention. A loudspeaker truck blaring jazz music raced up and pointed its horn directly at the group. Chief of Police Edward Carpentier arrived and ordered the singers to move on. When the Baptists refused, a dozen burly men hit them in a flying wedge. For 15 minutes the mauling went...
...count pops in & out of classrooms complimenting and encouraging his young artists. "I am always working towards a greater success and appreciation for my creatures," he says. He has never sought government aid for his projects ("I want no bureaucracy here ; I think of my work as a hymn...
Atom Bishop? Revai's sharpest blast was directed at Hungary's 11,532 members of religious orders. Cried Revai: "These reactionaries constantly spread imperialist propaganda, going from house to house spreading rumors, forming rosary fraternities, Bible-reading circles and hymn-singing groups...