Word: hymning
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...spinning across the pavement, while firemen battered him with streams of water so powerful that they could strip bark off trees. There was the Negro woman, pinned to the ground by cops, one of them with his knee dug into her throat. There was the white man who watched hymn-singing Negroes burst from a sweltering church and growled: "We ought to shoot every damned one of them." And there was the little Negro girl, splendid in a newly starched dress, who marched out of a church, looked toward a massed line of pistol-packing cops, and called...
...Penny declares, "and God the same as Mussolini, and Italy and the Fatherland less than God but more than my yellow bear." School is a hodgepodge of religion and Fascism. The children sing Ave Maria with a lily in their right hands; then they bawl out the Fascist hymn, switch the lily to their left hands and give the Roman salute...
...bres, and it impressively proved that Poulenc's last year, like his other 45 as a composer, was blessed with exalted days. In Sept Répons, Poulenc resolved the devotional strain that runs through much of his music; the composition is a hymn for Holy Week that, as a French critic said after Poulenc's death, "springs from a soul taken by an ideal...
...rhythm to their chant of his name: "Kenn-e-dee! Kenn-e-dee!'' Women swooned while sighing "El macho divino" ("The divine he-man"). Carried away by his presence at Mass in San Jose Cathedral, the organist thumped out The Star-Spangled Banner, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Stars and Stripes Forever, and Yankee Doodle. Even the fact that his nose, after a weekend in Palm Beach, was pink and peeling, seemed to add to his appeal. Cried a teen-age girl in ecstasy: "Tiene la nariz roja!" ("He has a red nose...
...recalls, ''that in composing haiku in praise of nature I had been responding in praise to the creations of God." Takeda, who is now imparting his poetic technique to members of the University's haiku club, believes that the verse "is the Japanese form of hymn." He regards writing haiku as a kind of spiritual exercise, and admits that "whenever I'm lazy with my prayer schedule, then it becomes hard for me to compose good haiku." The best of his inspirations occur to him "the moment I stand up after offering long prayers, wherever that...