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...with "Ole Miss" or "U.M." superimposed on the venerable Stars and Bars. This proposal is gaining wide favor. As for Dixie, the Ole Miss band, which has many black performers, has perfected a number, called From Dixie with Love, that is a stirring blend of Dixie and The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Their rendition would touch the soul of a Massachusetts abolitionist...
...there is a problem with this lively museum piece, it may lie in the sheer busyness of the place. Over a long weekend, Roberta Flack sings, the U.S. Army Field Band plays The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Presidential Aide Edwin Meese and General William Westmoreland defend embattled political positions, young musicians keep dates with Tchaikovsky under the stars. The resort's daily newspaper warns culture vultures to prepare for Victor Borge, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, discussions of abortion and contraception, and an address by the president of the National Council of Churches. It is not a great surprise...
Merkin, a former Miami News reporter, knows his turf and his people painfully well. He also knows more than enough about motivation, plot and prose. But his main virtue is an understanding of how a generation degenerates. When the youthquake started, students read Huxley's hymn to hallucinogens, Doors of Perception, for enlightenment. Merkin's delayed adolescents appear at those doors ready to shoot off the locks. -By J.D. Reed
...instant the fight ended, officially at 2:52 of the 13th round, blaring patriotic music came on the loudspeaker system, including the Battle Hymn of the Republic. The young men in Cooney's entourage, most of them grade-school buddies from Long Island, pressed together around him in his corner, and some of their eyes were redder than his. The sparrowlike head of Ray Arcel poked through the challenger's huddle, and Holmes' man whispered generously: "Don't get discouraged, Gerry. Keep trying. You're still going to make...
...stage Annie was a harmless, punchless confection with an O.K. score featuring that unavoidable pop hymn Tomorrow. Was this amiable amble down Mummery Lane worth the Tony awards, the five-year run on Broadway (still going strong), a record $9.5 million for the movie rights? On the evidence of this film, no. Instead of elfin simplicity, Director John Huston offers production numbers full of empty extravagance, a host of familiar characters (like Punjab and the Asp) with little to do-and a chorus of baby Mormans knowingly strutting their stuff, breaking the sound and charm barriers...