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...been an anathema, is trying to lay claim to the movie. But that is nonsense. What liberal would want to deny the compassion and courage of working-class heroes whom the left embraced, historically, long before the right? Very simply, World Trade Center is a powerful movie experience, a hymn in plainsong that glorifies that which is best in the American spirit...
...Still, back when wife roles were solid ones, Allyson was The Wife. But the movies weren't always glaringly sunny. Her three films with James Stewart tested Allyson's innate chipperness. In Strategic Air Command, a hymn to '50s flyboys, her co-respondent is a bomber, which almost takes Stewart to his death. She perseveres and sees to it that he does too. In The Stratton Story Stewart loses a leg; in The Glenn Miller Story he loses his life. She must support him, literally and emotionally, in the first; and in the second, she shows, with great delicacy...
...school spirit.” We are trying hard now to improve undergraduate life in and beyond the classroom. But if we had as our goal that students know the words to the football songs, or even “Fair Harvard” (the University hymn is one bridge too far), we’d be in trouble. The real spirit of undergraduate life can be found in our students’ restless pursuit of excellence and innovation, in hundreds of different and not always intersecting ways—from the seminar room to the laboratory to the cramped...
...operetta and, in the Gilbert and Sullivan mode, each song fits into the plot, advances the improbable story and fleshes out the characters, all the while parading its jazzy insouciance. Sometimes Ira can be just on the lyric side of lewd. In "Never Was a Girl So Fair," a hymn to Miss Devereaux's allure, the pols sing: "What a charming epiglottis! / What a lovely coat of tan! / Oh, the man who isn't hot is / Not a man!" The Encores! production, staged by John Rando (who directed the wonderful 1998 revival of the Kaufman-Gershwin Strike Up the Band...
...young soldiers to step into the place that older missionaries now fill?" he asks the congregation. He steps down from the pulpit, and the organist begins playing the anthem associated more than any other with escape from bondage. In Korean, 2,000 voices swell to sing The Battle Hymn of the Republic...