Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flutter of fingers, a kiss-kiss of lips, a toss-up of locks-it was Tiny Tim in Yorkshire at the start of a five-week tour of England. But Tim's manner seemed so inappropriate to his matter (The Land of Hope and Glory, the superpatriotic hymn to Britain from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance) that onetime Coldstream Guardsman Jim Smith, 34, felt impelled to wrest the mike away. "This man was running down England," barked the unrepentant Guardsman. "I'm quitting," trilled the unrepentant singer, who thereupon flounced back to the States...
...culture and counterculture. Suppose they had listened to that collision of psalm and catch tune for weeks, for months. Would the double echo have ceased to be two competing sounds? Would one new sound have fallen in the ear, with a new rhythm and harmony of its own, neither hymn nor May dance: a third...
...least five civilizations and three continents, with odd lots of Latin, Shakespeare and the Bible thrown in. His peculiar comic note derives not only from this exotic mixture, but also from his sweet-tempered narrative of sour experiences. The punning jumble that results might be called a cracked hymn to the Joyce and sorrows of life...
...Shore, Dorothy Lamour, Miss Black America and Glen Campbell sang. The crowd was far larger this time, perhaps 350,000, and dissenters were in an uglier mood, hurling bottles and rocks at police and the fringe of the crowd. Fred Waring led everyone into a finale of the Battle Hymn of the Republic as the sky erupted in fireworks over the Potomac. Two Americans who came to Honor America were Dorothy Hill and Hazel Gay from Memphis. Said Mrs. Gay: "We were there early to hear Dr. Graham. It nearly broke me up. I could feel victory. Like...
...Dead March from Handel's Saul, Ritchard has brought a real costumed band of piccolos, brass and drums right on stage. And he has appended a musical epilogue to Shaw's wildly cheering townspeople. After a performance of "Yankee Doodle," a group launches into William Billings' patriotic hymn "Chester"-a most fitting choice, for Billings was a Bostonian who had written the piece around the date of the play's incidents and incorporated into its verses specific references to New England and General Burgoyne...