Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sandbag used as a counterweight accidentally crashed at the feet of Ethel Waters, star of The Member of the Wedding, as she took her curtain call in a Broadway theater. Unfazed, even though the weight had missed her by inches, she quoted a line from the hymn she sings in the play: "His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches...
...service was already underway when I arrived. The whole auditorium was filled and everyone was loudly singing a hymn from a printed sheet of lyrics handed out by the ushers. The lady sitting next to me helped me find the right hymn, "There is Wonderworking Pow'r in the Blood of the Lamb." A tousle-haired young man was both directing the singing and accompanying the singers on a trombone. After a few hymns, the collection was taken...
During the singing of the last hymn, a tall, blond man with angular features and deep-set eyes made himself a little conspicuous by fooling with some wires which seemed to run from him down to the edge of the stage. This man turned out to be Billy Graham who had been connecting his lapel microphone to the amplifying system...
...congregation was with heads bowed, Mr. Graham called upon all who wanted to be saved to come forward--"no one is looking." Those who came forward, a goodly number, were ushered through a side door by assistants, "to have a little scripture read to them." With a closing hymn, the meeting was over, and 6,000 Christians headed for the subways and homes...
...Shostakovich in the magazine Ogonek: "Many workers in the arts meet Stalin, and every one of them has been surprised by his immense understanding of art and the delicacy and depth of his wisdom and judgment." Stalin, he reported, had listened to many works entered in competition for a hymn of the Soviet Union, and "with surprising exactitude" put his finger on precisely what was wrong with each of them. "For composers," said Shostakovich, ". . . these meetings with the leader were a real school which left lifetime traces in their consciousness...