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...Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee seems to have taken those words as its battle hymn in organizing a Black Panther Party in Harlem this summer, similar to the one it has fathered in Lowndes County, Alabama...
While discarding a number of sentimental Victorian horrors, the hymnal ecumenically includes several Roman Catholic canticles based on plain chant, along with hymns borrowed from Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian songbooks. In response to popular demand, in went Billy Graham's longtime favorite, How Great Thou Art. Out, at the request of Negro Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones...
...epigraph, the author quotes Dylan Thomas' splendid hymn to his dying father: "Do not go gentle into that good night. / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage rage against the dying of the light. . . ." Perhaps Simone de Beauvoir's rage against death was, as it explicitly was for Dylan Thomas, a form of prayer...
...women and men, peddling sausages and souvenirs, clustered in the newly washed streets of the normally drab industrial city. When Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski arrived two days before the ceremonies, he was nearly mobbed by frantic tens of thousands, chanting wildly "Long live the Pope"* and singing the ancient Polish hymn We Want...
...feeling great." He would have to. Forty years ago, he had already written Alexander's Ragtime Band, Always, Remember, and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody. He had become a millionaire and married a debutante, Ellin Mackay-prompting his fellow songwriters to hymn in tribute: A Kid Who Came from the East Side Found a Sweet Society Rose...