Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will hear fewer prayers and more verses of the Marine Hymn in the next year," says one member of the White House. Gibes a Marine officer: "That was always good music...
...service began with a military color guard presenting the flag, and it ended with The Battle Hymn of the Republic. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord...
...less than this dazzling novel actually delivers. Shikasta owes more to Gulliver's Travels and the Old Testament than to Buck Rogers; it is at once a brief history of the world, a tract against human destructiveness, an ode to the natural beauties of this earth and a hymn to the music of the spheres...
...populism. In the final scene, Houdini appears from beyond the grave with the message that "there is no heaven but the people/ Let the people of the world/ shake off their chains/ and sing." To move from a vaudeville artiste slipping out of handcuffs to this kind of cosmic hymn is a long leap-too long. Except for some passing swipes at the police, war and poverty, Mitchell and Schat never specify the nature of the people's chains. Nor do they pause to consider that absolute freedom can itself be a kind of bondage...
Unlike C.S. Lewis, Sayers did not come late to religion. It was "no accident," she later wrote, that Gaudy Night, her penultimate detective work, and The Zeal of Thy House, her first religious drama, were "variations upon a hymn to the Master Maker." During her later years, religion became increasingly important in her life. Hone follows Sayers as, dressed in mannish suits, she made her public rounds of BBC talks and academic lectures. But her private life remains largely a mystery-as does Hone's reason for calling this a "literary biography," since it fails to analyze the books...