Word: hymning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trumpets sounded, the drums were thumped, and the jubilant crowds burst out singing-to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic-"Ronny, Ronny, Ronald Reagan, his truth goes marching on." "I believe in miracles," the former California Governor said during one of the celebrations last week, "but I also believe you've got to ootch them along a bit." The resurrection of Reagan's half-dead presidential campaign in four straight primary victories was undeniably something of a miracle, but keeping watch on Reagan as he ootched it along required quite a bit of ootching...
Kinflicks, in fact, is soaring in the slip stream of Fear of Flying, Erica Jong's bestselling hymn to the body electric. The novel proves again-if any doubters still remain-that women can write about physical functions just as frankly and, when the genes move them, as raunchily as men. It strikes a blow for the picara by putting a heroine through the same paces that once animated a Tom Jones or a Holden Caulfield. And it suggests that life seen from what was once called the distaff side suspiciously resembles the genitalia-centered existence that male novelists...
...breed a unique togetherness, it also reveals the peculiar schism between the Mormons and other members of the orchestra. Aboard the Saints' bus, the majority of passengers are women, mostly string players who have been with the orchestra for years. Mormon prayer books are much in evidence, and hymn sing-alongs help to pass time. With the Sinners, it is not only smokier: the passengers are predominantly men, many new to the orchestra, and the talk tends to gripes about six-hour bus rides to play a concert and union negotiations with management. The Sinners are aware that...
...Even J.H. Bigham ("a cripple like yourself") wouldn't have any trouble getting around or getting "the best cuts of meat, etc." In the center of Mouseville is the hall of the American presidents where 38 life-sized electronic dummies nod and fold and unfold arms while the Battle Hymn of the Republic plays on the sound system. Ike and Harding and Lincoln and Uncle Baines stand there as dream images to be lit up every hour on the hour for a group that has waited in line for two hours to be able to sit inside for an electronically...
...room and reverently knelt before a candlelit altar holding a picture of the late Guru Dev, Hindu holy man and predecessor of TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Each student brought fruit and flowers to be placed on the altar by Teacher Janet Aaron, who then recited a Sanskrit puja (hymn of worship)* and whispered each student's mantra, the secret word that must be repeated to aid meditation...