Word: hymns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indestructible score, Orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett has dug enough material to add a third phenomenally selling album to this phenomenally selling series. The music is not Rodgers' vigorous best, but with the inclusion of authentic battle sounds and the addition of a "Symphonic Scenario" incorporating Guadalcanal March and Hymn of Victory, the album makes stirring listening...
...Texan John Tower peroratedsternly, "Give me liberty or give me death!" But the live hero of the night was Barry Goldwater,† who got a five-minute standing ovation complete with waving banners (FOR THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM-GOLDWATER IN '64) and two rousing choruses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Cried Goldwater: "Conservatism is the wave of the future. It has come of age at a time of need. It has come to life after 30 years of apathy...
...dijo: yo soy el camino y la verdad y la vida" (Jesus said: I am the way and the truth and the light). Within the ring, 12,000 Peruvians chewed on anticuchos (chunks of grilled beef heart) or sipped chicha (a beer made of corn). There was a hymn, a collection; then a Peruvian missionary announced that they would hear from "the man known all the world over as the Human Bible." In this setting, Baptist Preacher Billy Graham brought his "Crusade for Christ" to the Roman Catholic heartland of South America. No city on the continent trumpets its devotion...
...would be the message. But the distinctive characteristic of L'Avventura is that things are not the same at the end as they were in the beginning. Claudia has changed, as has Anna (if she lives), as has Julia. L'Avventura is a study of Claudia living, not a hymn of despair or diatribe against society...
...movie version of The Conscience of a Conservative: "It's going to be a silent, sponsored by Pierce-Arrow." Then, of course, there's the John Birch Society. And at Manhattan's Upstairs at the Downstairs, a Birch sextet nightly sings a sort of battle hymn of the reactionaries, with verses like...