Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husting stones by the seashore. He scales a lower of white rock, and straddling he peak, black cape whipping in the winds, he cuts a lone prophet figure against a clear sea; meanwhile the dances out her care-free spiritual applause on the sand, crying. "It will be a hymn to Truth and Beauty!" Or take the ending of the film: Gaudier-Brzeska's last unsculpted block of stone stands forgotten in a Paris sewer. Through the grating above, all of Paris can be seen celebrating the end of the war, while below Sophic Brzeska circles the stone in silent...
...give yourselves up," she called to him in English, "nothing will happen." He answered gruffly in the same language: "No." A chorus of a hundred young Jews broke through police cordons and loudly sang the Hatikvah, Israel's national anthem, followed by the U.S. civil rights hymn We Shall Overcome. "We've got to let them know in there that we are with them, that they're not alone," explained one. The eerie wah-wah, wah-wah of police sirens echoed everywhere while army helicopters fluttered overhead. The mood inside Olympic Village changed under the stress from...
...your account of the sources of several of the phrases in Candidate McGovern's acceptance speech, I was curious about the inspiration for the "Come home. America" theme. As a Methodist P.K. (preacher's kid) of McGovern's generation, I recall singing many times the gospel-hymn chorus that goes...
...night, Joan (Lee Guilliatt) meets a miniskirted doll (Essie Borden) who is-what else? -the Virgin Mary enjoying a one-day pass from Camp Paradise. The encounter makes a revolutionary of Joan, who goes to her preordained end while a cellmate giggles vacantly and the chorus sings a gospel hymn...
...Amazing Grace seems part of a minitrend toward the archaic on the charts. Cat Stevens' Morning Has Broken (No. 8) is an old English school hymn. Todd Rundgren's I Saw the Light (No. 16) is a traditional and familiar gospel song. For the ultimate reach into the past, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney's next hit may be the recording he has just made of Mary Had a Little Lamb...