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...opposition was as well organized as the supporters, and far more boisterous. Some 2,000 chanting, hymn-singing demonstrators, many of them bused into Raleigh by a group of fundamentalist churches, besieged wavering legislators. The anti-ERA crowd filled the air with choruses of Amazing Grace! and waved placards declaring ERA the PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE. Former U.S. Senator Sam Ervin Jr. added his country-lawyer counsel against the amendment. Said Ervin: "ERA would nullify any laws that make any distinction between men and women. When the good Lord created the earth, he didn't have the advice...
...would have taken great interest in Bok, anyhow. His voice is a warm bass baritone. His songs-some original, some traditional -are sober, a little lofty on occasion, and limited in appeal by theme as well as sound. Among Bok's prime efforts are Seal Djiril's Hymn and Peter Kagan and the Wind, a 15-minute narrative ballad about a fisherman who is, one might say, married to a fishwife: "She was a seal, you know/ Everyone knew that .../ But nobody would...
...tradition of the 1960s, Robinson's group staged hymn-singing marches. Some of his followers were arrested, but the marches spread to Lexington, Okolona, Canton and Corinth. The Ku Klux Klan held counterdemonstrations, and there were scattered episodes of violence. Robinson's tactics are not born of nostalgia; they fit his perception of the problem. "There's no such thing as the New South," he says bitterly. "There's more racism in Mississippi in 1978 than there was in 1972." But some blacks see Robinson's approach as self-defeating. When the Tupelo city government...
...Angel Band--Appalachian folk hymn singing for faculty, students and staff. Room 100. Schneider Center...
...affair inspired a unique musical outburst. By the time he died at age 74 (some say while pursuing a woman through a nearby woods), Janáček had written four blazingly original operas, orchestral pieces and chamber music and the immense, superbly spiky Glagolitic Mass, a pantheistic hymn...