Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process of a large church trying to find its way." This year's conference, suggests Methodist Layman Charles Parlin, a Manhattan lawyer and a co-president of the World Council of Churches, "might be historic." In twelve brisk days of debate-interspersed with sessions of prayer, preaching and hymn singing-the Methodist legislators are considering petitions and commission reports that could, if accepted, help rekindle much of the church's old zeal. Among the principal issues...
Down & Out. Her discoveries of both God and the devil in jazz reflect perhaps the troubled state of her own spirit. But even so, she seems to have found her way. With the help of a priest, she has written a jazz hymn to St. Martin de Porres, a mulatto saint of the 17th century, and she is now working on a jazz Mass...
With its very own stack on the floor of the Coop, Seven Days of Mourning has quickly established a Cambridge following unequaled anywhere. True, the author, L.S. Simckes (rhymes with HYMN-kiss) is an English C section man at Harvard and writes in the popular bagel-and-lox genre. But even without such ties to the Establishment, Simckes' slim novel would have its appeal...
...bunch of alums were whooping it up in a highway-side saloon, toasting Stanford's football victory over Cal, when a young old grad called for the Stanford hymn. "How does it go?" someone asked. "From the ... something . . . something ..." a voice began. "Foothills? Mountains?" someone suggested. Others dimly recalled "in the sunset fire" and "raise our voices singing," until at length a young wife bravely quavered...
Then she too expired, peering into her glass and lamely saying, "It certainly makes you want to cheer." In the touching silence, her husband exclaimed: "Let's drink to the roaring foothills and the hell with the hymn...