Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...religious service, begins. Inside the room, the pale skin of a few babies shows up sharply in the candle-light against the black clothing of the women who hold them. Over and over, the worshippers sitting on cushions around the floor sing to the accompaniment of three guitars a hymn that stresses the unity of the members of the Church. At one end of the room, hung on a deep purple drape, is a silver cross; at the other end, over a black curtain, is a red representation of the horned goat of Mendes, a symbol of Satan...
...with "As it is," to which those assembled reply "So be it": a greeting and reply Processeans often use during the course of the day that corresponds roughly to "How are you," and "Fine thanks." At several points in the service, the Music Officer announces the number of the hymn, and the Assembly sings the words of the hymn to the kind of simple, logical melody that, like the melodies of many hymns in other churches, is easy for someone who has never heard it before to sing along with...
...only following orders, sir," says the soldier in The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley, a new pop record. (This might be as big as Harper Valley PTA, says its distributor.) How can a soldier be punished for doing as he was told...
...beneath the dense set-'em-right facts, the book is a hymn to the life of the mariner. Morison has gathered together into a 1,000-year epic the sagas of all those serendipitous seamen who set sail with visions of Cathay or a Northwest Passage-or at least a new fishing ground-and instead bumped into places like Greenland, Labrador and finally the rest of North America. The familiar names are here: Leif Ericsson, discovering his mysterious Vinland around 1000 (Morison would like to believe it was Newfoundland); John Cabot, who sought a short cut to the Indies...
None of the pro-Calley gestures topped in inanity a recent record on the Plantation label, The Battle Hymn of Lieutenant Calley, which reportedly sold 202,000 copies in the first three days after the verdict. After a voice-over about "a little boy who wanted to grow up and be a soldier and serve his country in whatever way he could," the song begins...