Word: hymns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things that her husband had stood for. She asked that a member of the Army's Special Forces, wearing the green beret distinctive of those guerrilla warfare specialists, be included among the honor guard. Because of Jack's love of the Navy, she requested that the Navy hymn be played as the casket was carried up the Capitol steps. She invited the Navy Choir and Tenor Luigi Vena, who had sung at her wedding, to sing at the cathedral. Recalling that Jack had recently marveled at an exhibition by Britain's Royal Highland "Black Watch" Regiment...
...many, it was Jackie Kennedy, still athletic in her springy stride, walking behind her husband's casket. To others, it was Hail to the Chief, or the Navy hymn, or Onward, Christian Soldiers. To some, it was the ageless rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. But to others, it was the fact that those rituals are not changeless-as evidenced when Richard Cardinal Gushing, Archbishop of Boston, who had married John and Jacqueline Kennedy and baptized their children, neared the end of the Requiem Mass and cried in his strangely discordant voice: "May the angels, dear Jack, lead...
...played charmingly by Carol Ketty). In Sweet Apple he runs into Kim's father, Gilbert Nussbaum, who counters Birdie's laughable lecheries with wonderfully ineffectual tantrums. The father's rage subsides, briefly at least, when he appears on the Ed Sullivan show along with Conrad and Kim. His hymn to Ed Sullivan is one of the most sinister parodies in musical comedy...
...Tories, who gathered for their annual conference at Blackpool this week, were begging party officials "to get them inspired." There was no doubt about the Labor delegates' mood as they bellowed The Red Flag ("Come dungeon dark or gallows grim/ This song shall be our parting hymn") and hit the road to Jerusalem. The wind of change from Scarborough was infectious. "Me vote Tory?" exclaimed one Soho pub pundit. "That would be like Noah picketing the flood...
...carried 785 marchers-many of them youngsters in their teens or early 20s who, as a result of their participation in Negro demonstrations, had spent time in Southern jails or carried on their bodies the scars inflicted by Southern cops. They piled off the train singing the battle hymn of the Negro's 1963 revolution, We Shall Overcome. Their spirit perked up hundreds of other Negroes still wandering aimlessly around the depot...